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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It's our patronal festival, St. Bartholomew's Day—you know.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 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
Yesterday was St. Stephen's Day, and, therefore, the patronal festival of the Abbey Church.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 by Various
Somewhat later it disappeared also in the case of the churches of less importance, patronal rights over these being substituted for the former absolute ownership.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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
