padre
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He believes his bosses found out about his sexuality after he told a padre - a chaplain in the armed forces - that he was bisexual.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2024
At the Met as Idamante — another trouser role — she found clear paths between soft, somber tones and quicksilver intensity, her “Il padre adorato” commanding yet sweet, crystal clear and diamond sharp.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2022
And at the end, when she dies, she says, “Mio padre, addio!”
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
“It’s easier to talk padre a padre in our language instead of the academic words doctors or government people use,” said Vargas, 37.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2021
“Captain Balan,” said the peregrine, “it is rude to whisper. We will proceed to swear the new officer in. Now, padre, if you please.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
It’s where the padres of the San Gabriel mission lived for a time, and it’s reputedly where the first orange seedlings in California were planted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
Brought to the New World by the Spanish padres, the pomegranate is a curious and beautiful fruit, an ancient symbol of birth and eternal life.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2012
I want it to hold the romance of the Pilgrim fathers … the romance of the Spanish conquistadores and of the French padres.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2012
There were two padres, one sitting and talking to a man lying on his side, the other praying by a shape under a blanket.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
There!--this has done more to make me believe in a Providence than all the preaching of all the padri of Italy!
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore
We shook hands with our smiling friends among the padri, took leave of the archbishop, and then visited the studio of Padre Alessio, who had just finished a faithful and spirited portrait of monsignore.
From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean
The stewards, most of whom understood a few words of English, readily grasped the fact that the padri was asking for help in a situation which they well knew to be desperate.
From The Captain of the Kansas by Tracy, Louis
Santa Maria!—what is it they are saying about Fra Paolo finding the die for making money that the padri left behind?
From A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.
