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patron
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patron as in:  a patron of the arts

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  • As a loyal patron of the bookstore, she visited almost every weekend.
    patron = customer
  • The Earl of Southampton was Shakespeare's only known patron.
    patron = financial supporter
  • I spare you out of love for your father, but I am patron to you no more.  (source)
    patron = supporter
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  • "Would you attack your patron?" the woman chided.  (source)
    patron = supporter
  • Once the last few patrons had arrived, everyone settled down solemnly and waited.  (source)
    patrons = customers
  • Both Teddy and I were raised on the goofy tunes of Jonathan Richman, who is Mom and Dad's musical patron saint.†  (source)
    patron saint = saint who supports or looks after
  • A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping.†  (source)
    patron saints = saints who support or look after specific groups
  • Your patron-saint, in the calendar.†  (source)
    patron-saint = saint who supports or looks after
  • It was for quite some other reason that she didn't like my patron-saints.†  (source)
    patron-saints = saints who support or look after specific groups
  • The reason for this ceremony is that even though the mizuage itself would be over with quickly, Dr. Crab would remain my mizuage patron until the end of his life—not that it gave him any special privileges, you understand.  (source)
    patron = supporter
  • Although many fields of science, such as physics and chemistry, had become federally funded, paleontology remained strongly dependent on private patrons.  (source)
    patrons = people who contribute money to an organization
  • La Virgen de Guadalupe was the patron saint of our town.†  (source)
    patron saint = saint who supports or looks after
  • In one place the peasants presented him with bread and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor of Peter and Paul, his patron saints.†  (source)
    patron saints = saints who support or look after specific groups
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