What is "patronesses"

Usage examples of "patronesses".

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.

At functions planned for patronesses and Consorts, at the theater, at restaurants, at fetes and jollities, he does not appear.

The Hags at the Temple say that because the Hagions wish our patronesses to be served properly, they do not mind being used to that end.

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.

Lady Bellingham, long acquainted with both patronesses, greeted them and moved aside for Julien to present Katharine.

Thus she merely stared with complete indifference at the two patronesses, shrugged carelessly, and turned away.

As you have observed, it's mandatory for you to have the consent of the patronesses to dance the waltz.

The town began to hum with the story of Sherry’s amazing marriage, and the most coldly correct of Almack’s patronesses, Mrs Drummond Burrell, remarked casually to one of her fellow-patronesses, Lady Jersey, that no voucher of admission to that most exclusive of clubs could, of course, be granted to young Lady Sheringham.

Nothing could have been more unfortunate, for the rules laid down by Almack’s despotic patronesses were not even relaxed for the Duke of Wellington himself.

Blackballed he might have been by his fellow-men at Watier’s, but for all their exclusiveness the patronesses of Almack’s were not proof against air, manner, and the easy address which characterized Sir Montagu.