Definition of Protégée

1. Noun. A woman protege.

Generic synonyms: Protege

Definition of Protégée

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of protégée) ¹

2. Noun. A female protégé. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Protégée

1. a female protege [n -S] - See also: protege

Lexicographical Neighbors of Protégée

protectoral
protectorate
protectorates
protectorial
protectories
protectorless
protectors
protectorship
protectorships
protectory
protectour
protectress
protectresses
protects
protege
protegee
protegees
proteges
protegrin
protei
proteid
proteide
proteides
proteids
proteiform
protein
protein complex
protein complexes
protein domain
protein domains

Literary usage of Protégée

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The North Star and the Southern Cross: Being the Personal Experiences by Margaretha Weppner (1880)
"When I kissed my -poor protegee, and wished her goodbye, ... I felt extremely sad when I left this poor orphan child — my unhappy protegee, whom, ..."

2. The Queen of Naples and Lord Nelson: An Historical Biography Based on Mss by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1889)
"... 'in 1791'—His Statement that she was Pitt's Protegee and Spy—His scandalous Description of Maria Caroline's Intimacy with Emma Hamilton—Fourteen Errors ..."

3. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"a person placed under one's protection, protege, protegee (f'rV —btlb, n. palladium; —blättern,/, pl. cow- pox; —bret, n. wicket in a flood-gate, mill- dam, ..."

4. Plays by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky, George Rapall Noyes (1917)
"A PROTEGEE OF THE MISTRESS Part of a densely grown garden; on the right benches; at the back a rail fence, separating the garden from a field SCENE I Enter ..."

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