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The Medici were famous patrons in which Italian city?

patron

[pay-truhn] / ˈpeɪ trən /


NOUN
person who does business at establishment
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That Friday night, only one patron came through, and so Keket closed early.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Dimes bought more than candy: In the years after labor fights at his Standard Oil Company left workers dead, Rockefeller’s small gifts burnished a new reputation as a grandfatherly patron.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Alan Mandell, an award-winning actor, arts patron and arts administrator, was best known for co-founding the San Quentin Drama Workshop and interpreting the plays of Samuel Beckett.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Accompanied by her sidekick and netherworld patron King Grimsquawk – a crowned raven-baby holding a scepter – Workman conjures up one of the funniest small-screen comedies that isn’t officially on TV.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Ludovico Sforza, the patron of the lavish Milanese Renaissance, would die, half-mad, in a French dungeon.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

At the Los Angeles Zoo, patrons can bring a picture of their late companion animals to display on a community altar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

The author of “Shakespeare at Thirty’” on spies, massacres, pirates, poets and the patrons who made literary careers possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

But overall, the prevailing narrative was that seeing “The Devils,” in this format and with a full crowd of fervent patrons, was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Fiery arguments have broken out among patrons at Rock's Family Diner in the Aroostook frontier town of Fort Kent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

But Vincent does not come from such a family or have any connections with the kind of people who could be patrons.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman


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