patrona

Except in the ideal society which has not yet arrived, or in very chaotic and prosperous ages like the one that is just ending, this means in practice that the artist must have some kind of patrona ruling class, the Church, the State, or a political party.

As I Please 1944

Libros más recientes han estado en el campo de la hagiografía - sobre San Juan el Pescador o sobre Santa Elizabeth de Portugal, la patrona de la paz, quien montó sobre su pequeña mula entre ejércitos listos para el combate.

El Rev. Vincent McNabb, O.P. 2008

You wish to take us, Frui Mria, by degrees, as artis litterarum-que patrona but I am afraid, my poor woman of that same name, what with your silvanes and your salvines, you are misled. —

Finnegans Wake 2006

So let us to supper, such as it is; ham as rancid as an old oil-cask, eggs that would have been chickens to-morrow, and wine -- but the wine may atone for the rest -- it is old Peralta, or the patrona is perjured.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

She desired me to think myself patrona del casa, and offered me all the services in her power, to wait on me where I pleased, &c.

Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925

The patrona of the family seemed rather shy of me at first, until, in the course of conversation, she discovered that I was an Englishman.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

Had he but bridled his cursed curiosity, and had the Count but taken the alarm in time and held his peace, all might have been well with his beloved patrona.

Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912

Corneli, tibi: namque tu solebas meas esse aliquid putare nugas; iam tum cum ausus es unus Italorum5 omne aeuum tribus explicare cartis doctis, Iuppiter, et laboriosis. quare habe tibi quidquid hoc libelli qualecumque; quod, o patrona uirgo, plus uno maneat perenne saeclo.

To Cornelius Nepos: A Dedication 1912

Isabella was the true goddess of his adoration, the mistress to whom his heart and lyre alike were pledged, who was for him, not only "_la mia patrona e signora_," but "_la prima donna del mondo_," "the first lady in all the world."

Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887

Insider trading, patrona en agendas, and freezer chests.

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