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kindreds

  • plural
    of kindred.
    kindred
    noun
    a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.

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Come with me as I follow this host of real-deal Dallas kindreds.

From Southern Living Sep. 16, 2010

Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues.

From Time Magazine Archive

Never again shall there be any such league of Elves and Men; for Men multiply and the Firstborn decrease, and the two kindreds are estranged.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Yet, for all his clumsiness, his good-will was so unchanging that none of the farmyard kindreds had any dread of him, saving only the pig in his sty.

From Hoof and Claw by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

It was a "killer" whale, or grampus, the most redoubtable and implacable fighter of all the kindreds of the sea.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

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