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frère

American  
[frer] / frɛr /

noun

French.

plural

frères
  1. brother.

  2. a fellow member of an organization.

  3. friar; monk.


Example Sentences

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Observers have seen Bloom’s rabbi as a self-portrait, but it would be more accurate to view that figure as the artist’s alter ego, his spiritual frère.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2013

Come, Benjamin, put your arm around me and we shall be comfortably one, mon semblable—mon frère!

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2011

What do you know about it, mon semblable, mon frère?

From Time Magazine Archive

With this, mon frère, I pray God to have you in his holy keeping.

From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth

Ce fut le Chevalier de Callières, frère du plénipotentiaire de Riswick, qui la fit fermer, tandis qu'il en étoit gouverneur.

From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by Warburton, George