Usually these patronesses are elected for life, or at least for a long period of years.
Patronesses Receive At a subscription dance where patronesses take the place of a hostess, about four of these ladies are especially selected by the ball committee to receive.
Subscription dances such as these are managed and all invitations are issued by patronesses who are always ladies of unquestioned social prominence.
Fifty ladies, therefore, the most prominent possible, are the patronessesor managers, or whatever they choose to call themselves.
The patronesses were the Countess of Albemarle, Lady Anne Coke, Lady Stafford, Lady Suffield, the Hon.
Well-beloved novel-readers and gentle patronesses of romance, assuredly it has often occurred to every one of you, that the books we delight in have very unsatisfactory conclusions, and end quite prematurely with page 320 of the third volume.
And in the interval she told Pierre how Laveuve was at one moment to have entered the Asylum of the Invalids of Labour, a charitable enterprise whose lady patronesses were presided over by Baroness Duvillard.
On this occasion he had been obliged to bring her, as she was one of the lady-patronesses of the asylum, and he himself was coming to lunch with the Duvillards in his capacity as general manager.
In two other miniatures the gradual progress and entire completion of the city are shown, and in the foreground of each Christine and her three patronesses as before.
If I buy a ticket for a Flower Show, or a Music Show, or any sort of Show, and pay pretty heavy for it, why am I to be Patroned and Patronessed as if the Patrons and Patronesses treated me?
And as to the Patrons and Patronesses themselves, I wonder they're not ashamed of themselves.
Who is there that does not know that the Lady Patronesses of Almack's have interdicted pantaloons, tight or loose, at their assemblies?
She was one of the patronesses of a repository in London, which has lately been opened, called the 'Repository for Ingenious Works.
The lady, with whom we drank tea yesterday is one of the patronesses of the charity-school.
The patronesses are great ladies, with whom I have nothing to do; I am no one, only papa's daughter.
If one of the patronesses had taken you with her, it would be quite different.
When small tables are used, the patronesses generally sit by themselves, and the guests group themselves to their own satisfaction.
The patronesses should be welcomed at the ball by the management, and they then take their position ready to receive the guests.
At any function where patronesses are present, a man should bow to the one inviting him, and give her a few words of greeting.
The patronesses should be at the ball-room in ample time before the arrival of the guests, to see that all is in readiness.
It is customary for the management formally to invite six, eight, or more married women to act as patronesses of the ball, and for their names to appear on the invitations.
The management should look after the patronesses, to see that they are taken into supper, to introduce prominent guests to them, and, finally, to escort the patronesses to their carriages.
The patronesses stand in line to receive the guests, bowing or shaking hands as they prefer.
If small tables are used, the patronessessit by themselves.
The men wait upon their partners and themselves at the table, the waiters assisting, unless small tables are used, when the patronesses sit by themselves, and others form groups as they like.
The patronesses whose names appear on the back of the cards are the subscribers.
When small tables are used the patronesses generally sit by themselves, and the guests group themselves to their own satisfaction.
Princess Victoria and her mother, Princess Christian, King Edward's sister, were afterwards good enough to bepatronesses at my first recital in London.
Her Royal Highness Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, and her daughter, Princess Victoria, graciously consented to be my patronessesat this concert.
As soon as school breaks up, they run with as much eagerness and joy to their garden, as other children do to their childish sports; and their highest pleasure is the approbation their patronesses give their performances.
Ninthly, the expenses of sickness shall be discharged by the patronesses of this society.
They may stay for one or two dances, or throughout the whole evening, as they prefer; and when departing, it is not necessary to seek out the patronesses and bid them good-by.
On these cards the names of the patronesses are also engraved.
There is no host or hostess, of course; their place is held by an appointed committee or by the patronesses of the dance.
It is the duty of the patronesses to introduce those of the guests who are not already acquainted.
Guests arriving at a public dance greet the patronesses with a smile of welcome and a word or two, but rarely offer their hands to be shaken unless the ladies serving as patronesses take the initiative.
To the other belong the complimentary and elegant epistles in which he delighted and perhaps bewildered his noble lady friends and patronesses with erudite and transcendental flattery.
The latter places it in April, 1615, when Donne was on the eve of taking Orders, and was approaching his noble patronesses for help in clearing himself of debt.
But it is my duty to keep my patronesses up to the high-water mark of fashion.
Am I not one of the chief patronesses of the ball?
It was known that each was about to sign a new contract, and Cuzzoni's patronesses made her take an oath not to accept lower terms than Faustina.
Her patronesses were the Countess of Burlington and Lady Delawar.
Of considerable importance are several ladies in the early years of the Stuarts who followed in the footsteps of Lady Pembroke as patronesses of learning.
Some of the lady patronesses were of opinion, that it would be expedient in future, to confine their bounty to the children of protestants only.
Her present business at Annaly was to try what impression she could make on Lady and Miss Annaly, who were both patronessesof the school.
You know the patronesses have specified--" "There!
I'm sure our patronesses are protection enough, and mother is going to delay her trip a few days on purpose to be on hand.
These illustrious visitors were received by the lady patronesses with the honors due to their rank, while the band of the Royal Horse Guards played national airs.
A little in the rear the ladies in waiting and the lady patronesses formed the royal escort.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patronesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
