sponsorette

plural sponsorettes

1. A female sponsor.

   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.

   1920, The School Review - Volume 28, page 55

   2 more examples

   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.

   1946 December 28, “Radio Execs' Wives In Sponsors Role”, in Billboard, volume 58, number 52, page 7

   “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!"

   2014, H. Norsen, Orchidus Academy, →ISBN, page 83