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Example sentences for: patron

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The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers.
Powell may be the patron saint of all writers laboring in obscurity.
The western end of George Street begins at Charlotte Square, originally named St. George’s Square after the patron saint of England (mirroring St. Andrew’s Square at the street’s eastern end, which was named for the patron saint of Scotland).
Ahead, steps under the altar lead to the alabaster tomb of Santa Eulàlia, one of the city’s two patron saints, martyred in the fourth century.
His death in 1591 by seppuku (the ritual disemboweling more crudely known to Westerners as harakiri) was in fact commanded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, his former friend and patron.