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Перевод: patroness

[существительное]
покровительница ; патронесса ; заступница

Тезаурус:

1. The patroness of musicians and dancers, marvellous festivals were held in Bast's honour.
2. She was reckless enough to challenge the goddess Athene, patroness of those crafts, to a contest of skill.
3. The patroness was a devout Spaniard, Benigna Kateina of Lobkovic, who also donated the diamonds on a monstrance in the Treasury (see p. 64).
4. "supposing your Patroness to have as
5. "Our club" presumably overlaps while being smaller than "the best circles" of this society, whereas the "they" of "the whole town" is sometimes, but only sometimes, the "we" of "our town"; and "our group" which springs out of "my" special relationship with Stepan Verkhovensky and which gathers round Mrs Stavrogin, Nicholas's mother and Stepan's patroness, is different again and again overlapping; and the "all" buried inside the phrase "our "old man" - as we all used to call Stepan Trofimovich among ourselves" is probably though not certainly synonymous with this "group"; while Dostoevsky delights in sly collective evocations like "civic grief" and in parcellings-out like "the poorest expectant mothers of the town", and in fouling the whole snobbish provincial nest with such carefully calculated absurdities as "almost the whole town, that is of course the entire top stratum of our society".
6. Two years later she began using Bernard Berenson as her buyer of Italian old masters, although it might be said that Berenson was using her, praising each new find in breathless superlatives in order to get the best price out of his patroness.
7. In early religion she was worshipped as the patroness of marriage, her fecundity being petitioned with gifts of fruit and seeds.
8. Originally thought to have a beneficial effect on flocks, Hecate was once the patroness of herdsmen.
9. The Roman counterpart of ARTEMIS, a goddess of the moon, a virgin and a huntress, Diana was also the patroness of women and assisted mothers in childbirth.
10. Dr Graham Dixon makes some suggestions about its Mantuan context and its possible connection with the patroness of the family, St Barbara.
11. Isabella d'Este, was not merely an enthusiastic instrument collector and patroness of the arts but also an accomplished singer, lutenist and keyboard player.
12. While it's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies, and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle, nevertheless the reader's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin, Stepan's patroness, when she hisses at him on his deathbed "you futile, futile, ignoble, chickenhearted, always, always futile man".
13. A few days after the premire, Constanze's mother decided that matters had gone on long enough between Mozart and Constanze, who had abandoned the fraught atmosphere of home to take temporary refuge with Mozart's friend and patroness, the Baroness von Waldstdten.