père

[ per; English pair ]

noun

, French.

, plural pères [pe, r, pairz].

1. father.
2. senior:

   Dumas père.

père

/ pɛr; pɛə /

noun

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

   Dumas père

Example Sentences

Jeanne's body, secreted away, was only later reburied next to his, in Père Lachaise.

From The Daily Beast

They met by the parapet of the Quai, just as Père Bracasse had come to the end of his incantation.

From Project Gutenberg

Père Bracasse was ill, suffering from rheumatism, bronchitis, fever and corns.

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I have had the coffin that we laid in Père la Chaise exhumed and opened.

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Flattery from his Curé weighed more with Lecour père than bushels of argument.

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He had known old Marowsko—le père Marowsko, he called him—in the hospitals in Paris.

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