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père

[ per; English pair ]

noun

, French.
, plural pères [pe, r, pairz].
  1. senior:

    Dumas père.



père

/ pɛr; pɛə /

noun

  1. an addition to a French surname to specify the father rather than the son of the same name Compare fils 1

    Dumas père

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Pere Navarro, head of the Catalan socialist party, said: "We need a new head of state."

In 1982, Assad pere massacred 20,000 of his own people in Hama.

Gaddafi pere has cast his sons against each other in an effort to divide and conquer, as he has done to his nation.

Sources tell us that she has kept Mubarak pere from naming a Vice President.

Neantmoins le vieil Membertou, pere du malade, conceut asss l'affaire, et me promit qu'on s'arresteroit tout ce que j'en dirois.

The first interment in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise; it was laid out and prepared by order of Bonaparte.

L le pere Birat dit la Messe, & fit ce qu'il peut pour ranger vn chacun ce qui estoit du devoir.

Also, I did manage, in the fullness of time, to deliver La Pere's ten thousand dollars without further gun-play.

Camusot promised to purchase a plot of ground for her in the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise.

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