Crossword-Solution: PROTEGEE 8 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Protegee n. f. One under the care and protection of another.

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Mary Cassatt, to Degas 1 answer
woman or girl who is protected and helped by another 1 answer
Woman with career patron 1 answer
Woman with a mentor 1 answer
Woman under wing 1 answer
She's learning the ropes 1 answer
She has a personal trainer 1 answer
Rey, to Luke, in "The Last Jedi" 1 answer
Mentor's concern 1 answer
Mentor's beneficiary 1 answer
Liv, to Ingmar 1 answer
Kirsten Gillibrand, to Hillary Clinton, once 1 answer
Jane Goodall, to Louis Leakey 1 answer
Girl under a wing 1 answer
Executive's plus-one at a Women in Business conference, perhaps 1 answer
Doolittle, to Higgins 1 answer
Eliza Doolittle, to Henry Higgins 2 answers
Mentor's mentee 2 answers
Pupil of a kind. 2 answers
RELIANT person 16 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PROTEGEE (5)

Lily did not need to be told that the Duchess’s championship was not the best road to social rehabilitation, and as she was besides aware that her noble defender might at any moment drop her in favour of a new PROTEGEE, she reluctantly decided to return to America.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
Obermuller, Manager Vaudeville Theater, New York City, N.Y.: Dear Obermuller:--I have just learned from your little protegee, Nance Olden, of a comedy you've written.
In the Bishop's Carriage Miriam Michelson 1996
Winkle was touched by this little trait of his delicate respect for the young _protegee _of his friend, and took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 2009
Moon, had a new companion, new so far as this narrative goes, but in reality an old friend and a protegee.
Manalive G. K. Chesterton 1999
Bludyer,” said the tailor, delighted that his protegee should be thus winning all hearts: “isn't Mrs.
Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1999

Quotes with PROTEGEE (1)

I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder--how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest. Not that I humbled myself by a slavish notion of inferiority: on the contrary, I just said-- "You have nothing to do…
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 16 times in crossword archives (1968–2020).