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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French protégée.
Pronunciation
Noun
protégée (plural protégées)
- A female protégé.
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: , volume I, London: for T 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 Sarkozy, Dati has fallen from grace in the past year, said John Lichfield in The Independent.
French
Pronunciation
Participle
protégée f sg
- feminine singular of protégé
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