sponsorette

English

Etymology

From sponsor +‎ -ette.

Noun

sponsorette (plural sponsorettes)

1. A female sponsor.
   • 1920, The School Review - Volume 28, page 55:

     The girls hold assemblies of their own, maintain a system of “sponsors and sponsorettes,” give parties for all the girls of the school, to which mothers are often invited.

   • 1946 December 28, “Radio Execs' Wives In Sponsors Role”, in Billboard, volume 58, number 52, page 7:

     Unusual situation whereby the wives of radio executives themselves have become sponsors — or "sponsorettes" has resulted from a business venture entered into recently by Georgia Weil and Adele Ronson.

   • 2014, H. Norsen, Orchidus Academy, →ISBN, page 83:

     “You know perfectly well, old chum,” said the other man, “that you have electro-photoscopular shields all over the Academy, and we wouldn't be allowed past them. After all, it was my sponsorette who invented them!"