Sponsor of a social affair

Usage examples of patroness.

God Almighty, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and of the holy canons, and of the undefiled Virgin Mary, the mother and patroness of our Saviour, and of all the celestial virtues, angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, powers, cherubims and seraphims, and of the holy patriarchs, prophets, and of all the apostles and evangelists, and of the holy innocents who in the sight of the Holy Lamb are found worthy to sing the new song, of the holy martyrs and holy confessors, and of the holy virgins, and of all the saints, and together with all the holy and elect of God: we excommunicate and anathematise him or them, malefactor or malefactors, and from the threshold of the holy church of God Almighty we sequester them, that he or they may be tormented, disposed and delivered over with Dathan and Abiram, with those who say to the Lord God, Depart from us, we desire not Thy ways.

The lady patronesses were just as logy and disinterested in platter-faced chits as Aunt Harriet.

I have only to let the top part of the ring fall back and my dear patroness takes care to conceal everything.

What would become of me, if my patroness, jumping up, discovered to their eyes a face--very divine, it is true, but which is not at all like that of a saint?

She said, likewise, that the nun who taught her French had offered her fifty sequins for the ring on account of the likeness between her and the portrait of the saint, but not out of veneration for her patroness, whom she turned into ridicule as she read her life.

Meanwhile, Galileo facilitated a friendship by correspondence between his elder daughter and his kind hostess, Caterina Riccardi Niccolini, for he saw Her Ladyship the Ambassadress as a potential patroness for the sisters of San Matteo.

I bribed her here by asking her to let me have her name as patroness for my poor conjuror this evening.

I would name you as patroness of my show wherever we go across the world, spreading the fame of your generosity, my Lady .

This gave him a crick in the neck, however enabled him to get a charming view of muscular white calves pumping in and out as his patroness stormed down the mid-line of the banquet-table.

She is a personal friend of several of the patronesses of Almack's, and this ball she is throwing will be attended by all of the most important people in London.

A number of very important people were to dine with us before the ball, two of whom were patronesses of Almack's, and Lady Winterdale was most anxious for Catherine to make a good impression.

I watched as his black head bent toward Lady Jersey, one of the patronesses of Almack's.

Lady Sefton, one of the patronesses, appeared in front of me with a gentleman who had attended our own ball, and presented him to me as a partner for the waltz.

All Consorts receive wages from their patronesses, plus tips, many of them, and even after they’re retired, ex-Consorts can freelance for additional profit.

At that same festival, Pearla had seen Hunks riding with their patronesses in the street and had decided on the spot that she wanted one of those for herself.