单词 | protégée |
释义 | protégéen. A female protégé; a woman or girl who receives the protection or patronage of another person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > person or thing in another's care > one under another's care or protection warda1500 tutage?1606 protégée1782 protégé1786 protectee1807 1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. i. xi. 153 Well, Miss Beverley, how fares it with your protegée? I hope, at length, she is contented. 1795 R. B. Sheridan Camp ii. iii. 25 And very apropos here comes your ladyship's protagee. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 299 Mrs. Saddletree..distressed about the situation of her unfortunate protegée. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance iv. 37 I am willing to be kind to the poor girl. Is she a protegée of yours? 1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) x. 88 She was the protégée of all the Ladies Bountiful in the neighbourhood, so that the doctors were afraid to treat her heroically. 1927 Z. Grey Valley of Wild Horses (1964) i. 13 It was long before his mother could get him to make the acquaintance of his protégée. 1979 S. Levenkron Best Little Girl in World (1988) ii. 20 The only thing that mattered was that Madame had noticed her, Madame had selected her. She was Madame's choice, Madame's protégée. 1995 New Yorker 2 Oct. 31/3 Much of the movie belongs to his protégée, Clara Rockmore, a theremin virtuoso. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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