• Protégée

    Pronunciation

    • RP IPA: en, /ˈpɹɒteÊ’eɪ/
    • GA IPA: en, /ˈpɹoÊŠtəʒeɪ/
    • or as in French
    • Hyphenation: en + pro + té + gée

    Origin

    Borrowed from .

    Full definition of protégée

    Noun

    protégée

    (plural protégées)
    1. A female protégé.
      • Austen Mansfield Park|chapter=IV|volume=I|page=81|passage=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, issue 700, page 21:Though formerly a protégée and friend of Nicolas Sarkozy, has fallen from grace in the past year, said John Lichfield in The Independent.----
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