protégée
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See also: protegee
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French protégée.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒtəʒeɪ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹoʊtəʒeɪ/
- or as in French
- Hyphenation: pro‧té‧gée
Noun
[edit]protégée (plural protégées)
- A female protégé.
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 81:
- The Admiral delighted in the boy, Mrs. Crawford doted on the girl; and it was the lady's death which now obliged her protegée, after some months' further trial at her uncle's house, to find another home.
- 2009 January 31, “Rachida Dati: why was she fired?”, in The Week, number 700, page 21:
- Though formerly a protégée and friend of [Nicolas] Sarkozy, [Rachida] Dati has fallen from grace in the past year, said John Lichfield in The Independent.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Participle
[edit]protégée f sg
Further reading
[edit]- “protégée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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