patron
noun
a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
patrones
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pluralof patrón.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Polo pros and local patrones describe Villegas as a good-natured man who never lost his temper, even during rough-and-tumble matches.
From Time Magazine Archive
Villegas and Cummings met two years ago at the Willow Run Polo school, a magnet for the Argentine players, many of whom are boarded on farms owned by the people they call their patrones.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whilest they and their patrones for them, require dominion and empire aboue men.
From The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women by Edward Arber
But of the xii. other vertues, I 130 make xii. other knights the patrones, for the more variety 131 of the history: Of which these three bookes contayn three.
From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Edmund Spenser
But of the xii. other vertues I make xii. other knights the patrones, for the more variety of the history: of which these three bookes contayn three.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
