patronne
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Madame Labbaye, the patronne, peered from behind a potted palm.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bonnard, whose chatty recollections make up most of the novel, is the quizzical young patronne of a marginally respectable pension just after World War II in Switzerland.
From Time Magazine Archive
I took a fifty-franc note from my pocket, put it in the envelope, sealed it, and handed it to the patronne.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Yvonne, so the patronne informed her, had taken the baby to the dunes, and thither Milly, without stopping to change her dusty dress, set out to find her.
From One Woman's Life by Herrick, Robert
We snatched a little breakfast and coffee at an inn where the patronne was still in possession, and then things began to get more lively.
From The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 by Gleichen, Edward, Lord
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