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protégées

protégées is the plural of protégée.

Meaning of protégée

Noun

protégée (plural protégées)

  1. A female protégé.
    • 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.1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 81

Questions about protégées

What is protégées the plural of?
Protégées is the plural of protégée.

Words near protégées in the dictionary

  1. Protzman
  2. Protzmans
  3. protégé
  4. protégé effect
  5. protégée
  6. protégées
  7. protégés
  8. proud
  9. proud as a peacock
  10. proud as Lucifer
  11. proud as Punch

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