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Definition of Protegee
1. Noun. A woman protege.
Definition of Protegee
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of protégée) ¹
2. Noun. A female protégé. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Protegee
1. a female protege [n -S] - See also: protege
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protegee
Literary usage of Protegee
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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