"protégée" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "French protégée",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French protégée.",
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      "form": "protégées",
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          "ref": "2009 January 31, “Rachida Dati: why was she fired?”, in The Week, number 700, page 21",
          "text": "Though formerly a protégée and friend of [Nicolas] Sarkozy, [Rachida] Dati has fallen from grace in the past year, said John Lichfield in The Independent.",
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        "A female protégé."
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  "word": "protégée"
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French protégée.",
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