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benefactress

noun as in female donor

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“What shocking conduct, Miss Eyre, to strike a young gentleman, your benefactress’s son! Your young master.”

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The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress.

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But it’s insulting that we never get a sense of Abdul’s deeper motivations, the desires that lurk beneath his smiling, unquestioning devotion to his benefactress.

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For dinner, my benefactress and I wound up at one of the city’s trendiest restaurants, Sushi Nakazawa, in the West Village.

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Soon Grover is settled in Anne’s guest cottage and impressing his benefactress with his impeccable manners and mad skills with begonias.

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