I am not harming Miss Lawton, who has been my patronne, my one friend in this strange, big country.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
Every one in the hotel, including the patron in his cook's white costume, the patronne, the grinning ape of a waiter, all the artists, and half the village gathered to watch the motor get under way.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick
Yvonne, so the patronne informed her, had taken the baby to the dunes, and thither Milly, without stopping to change her dusty dress, set out to find her.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick