"sponsorette" meaning in English

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        "1": "en",
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        "id2": "female"
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  "etymology_text": "sponsor + -ette",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sponsorettes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "sponsorette (plural sponsorettes)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920, The School Review - Volume 28, page 55",
          "text": "The girls hold assemblies of their own, maintain a system of “sponsors and sponsorettes,” give parties for all the girls of the school, to which mothers are often invited.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946 December 28, “Radio Execs' Wives In Sponsors Role”, in Billboard, volume 58, number 52, page 7",
          "text": "Unusual situation whereby the wives of radio executives themselves have become sponsors — or \"sponsorettes\" has resulted from a business venture entered into recently by Georgia Weil and Adele Ronson.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, H. Norsen, Orchidus Academy, page 83",
          "text": "“You know perfectly well, old chum,” said the other man, “that you have electro-photoscopular shields all over the Academy, and we wouldn't be allowed past them. After all, it was my sponsorette who invented them!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female sponsor."
      ],
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          "female",
          "female"
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        [
          "sponsor",
          "sponsor"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sponsorette"
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "sponsor",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "sponsor + -ette",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sponsorettes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    {
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      "expansion": "sponsorette (plural sponsorettes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920, The School Review - Volume 28, page 55",
          "text": "The girls hold assemblies of their own, maintain a system of “sponsors and sponsorettes,” give parties for all the girls of the school, to which mothers are often invited.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946 December 28, “Radio Execs' Wives In Sponsors Role”, in Billboard, volume 58, number 52, page 7",
          "text": "Unusual situation whereby the wives of radio executives themselves have become sponsors — or \"sponsorettes\" has resulted from a business venture entered into recently by Georgia Weil and Adele Ronson.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, H. Norsen, Orchidus Academy, page 83",
          "text": "“You know perfectly well, old chum,” said the other man, “that you have electro-photoscopular shields all over the Academy, and we wouldn't be allowed past them. After all, it was my sponsorette who invented them!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female sponsor."
      ],
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          "female"
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          "sponsor",
          "sponsor"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sponsorette"
}