patron
noun
a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
Example Sentences
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No one found anything objectionable in this; investiture with a bishopric was parallel with the appointment by a territorial proprietor to a patronal church.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
Do let us, with the arrival once more of our patronal festival, resolve to forget our doubts and our hesitations, our timidity and our rashness, our suspicions and our jealousies.
From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie
The Shaws' Fair probably the patronal feast of the church was formerly held on the last Friday in May every year.
From A Calendar of Scottish Saints by Michael Barrett
Discussing, quite in our modern way, the peculiarities of those suburban views, especially the sea-views, of which he was a professed lover, he was also every inch a priest of Aesculapius, patronal god of Carthage.
From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Walter Pater
Mark felt that he could not stay even until the patronal festival.
From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie
