English

Noun

protégée ‎(plural protégées)

1. A female protégé.
   • 1814, Austen, Jane, Mansfield Park, volume one, chapter IV, Thomas Egerton:

     The Admiral delighted in the boy, Mrs. Crawford doted on the girl; and it was the lady's death which now obliged her protégée, after some months' further trial at her uncle's house, to find another home.

   • 2009: The Week, issue 700 (2009 January 31), News, Talking points, page 21, “Rachida Dati: why was she fired?”

     Though formerly a protégée and friend of Sarkozy, Dati has fallen from grace in the past year, said John Lichfield in The Independent.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.te.ʒe/

Verb

protégée f

1. feminine singular of the past participle of protéger