2. Noun. (plural of protégée) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Protegees
1. protegee [n] - See also: protegee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protegees
Literary usage of Protegees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lancet (1842)
"... medical clubs were established, the most sordid modes of treating disease were
adopted by the needy protegees, and the rights of the poor and the common ..."
2. My Friends and Acquaintance: Being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal by Peter George Patmore (1854)
"HIS protegees. HIS REVENGES JOB SUPPOSED INJURIES. As it is of my intimacy alone
with Hazlitt that I propose to treat in any detail, I shall pass hastily ..."
3. Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America by Anne MacVicar Grant (1836)
"Death of Captain Dalziel—Sudden Decease of an Indian Chief— Madame—Her protegees.
MEANTIME an express arrived with the afflicting news of the loss of a ..."
4. Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America by Anne MacVicar Grant (1836)
"... Indian Chief— Madame—Her protegees. MEANTIME an express arrived with the
afflicting news of the loss of a captain and twenty men of the 55th regiment. ..."
5. Sorting the Pieces: Relative Connections by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1993)
"... FINANCE AND ITS protegees BOLSHEVISM AND ZIONISM The European War, and its
aftermath, dealt staggering blows to Western (Christian) Civilization. ..."
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