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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

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

From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth

Since it all happened mon pauvre frère has been so miserable zat sometimes he loses his mind: he is mad.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various

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