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frère

American  
[frer] / frɛr /

noun

French.
  • frères
    plural
  1. brother.

  2. a fellow member of an organization.

  3. friar; monk.


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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

And yet the domestic tragedy of this new frère was known to the imperial king-maker!

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

He could not hear the words, but the lively tones at once suggested, "Petit blanc, mon bon frère."

From A Romance of the Republic by Lydia Maria Francis Child

Sam is about to invent democracy, mes frères!

From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019

The frères Cormack built their company around a carefully constructed nostalgia.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2016

It is from a French intellectual and reads: “Ce n’est qu’un au revoir, mes frères / Ce n’est qu’un au revoir”, this being the French version of Auld Lang Syne.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2016

But it's the faux-Marx frères who keep up the comic mayhem, with the clowning and impromptu quipping the Marxes perfected.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2012

Strict Ultramontanists, these brethren have been somewhat unjustly nicknamed the frères Ignorantins.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various

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