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clientele|klaɪənˈtiːl, -ˈtɛl, kliːɒnˈtɛl|
Also 8–9 -el, 9 -elle, and in Fr. form clientèle.
[ad. L. clientēla the relation of client, clientship, a body of clients, f. client-em client. This seems to have been taken immediately from Latin in the 16th c., to have become obs. in the 17th (it is noted as Obs. in Webster 1864), and to have been re-adopted from French in the middle of the 19th, in sense 3; hence it is often pronounced wholly or partly as Fr.]
†1. The relation, position, or status of a client; clientship. Obs.
1611B. Jonson Catiline iii. viii. 123 Vargunteius..under the pretext of clientele And visitation, with the morning haile, Will be admitted. 1654L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 126 Redeemed from the Clientele and Vassallage of the Nobility. 1875N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 456 From the very exaggeration of the aristocratic regime..there rose an institution, the clientel.
†b. Protection of clients, patronage. Obs.
1611Coryat Crudities, It..enioyeth great peace vnder their sacred clientele and protection. a1662Heylin Hist. Presbyterians 96 Under the Clientele or Patronage of some juster Governor. 1692Coles, Clientele.
2. A body of clients or dependants; all who are under the patronage and protection of any person; a body of professed adherents; a following.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 246/1 So should be placed more of the popes clientele in the churches of France, than of the proper inhabitants of the land. 1649Hall Cases Consc. iv. vi. (1654) 347 Those of the Roman Clientele are not more careful. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) I. i. 7 The clientele of some patrician house.
b. with pl.
1721–66Bailey, Clientels, persons under Protection or Vassallage.
3. Now often applied (as in Fr.) to the whole professional connexion of a lawyer, physician, etc.; also a body of supporters, customers, or frequenters generally, as ‘the clientele of a theatre’, etc.
1865Daily Tel. 12 June, The enterprising commercial classes of the North..have despatched..merchandise to the South, and opened large credits for their former clientelle there. 1880Atlantic Mag. Sept. 306 The clientèle of Snelling's bar-room. 1882Med. Temp. Jrnl. I. 50 The..high esteem in which he is held by his extensive clientele.
Hence † clienˈteled a., having a clientele.
1613Acc. Anglesea (1860) 49 These that glory to see them selves well clienteled, and are the best Jury mungers. |