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compeer

[kuhm-peer, kom-peer] / kəmˈpɪər, ˈkɒm pɪər /


NOUN
one of equal rank
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"Ambassador Forbes is a worthy compeer of George Washington," declared Prince Tokugawa, President of the House of Peers.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man "without a compeer . . . either in misery or in bliss."

From Time Magazine Archive

Charles B. Cochran, the British Ziegfeld, is quite as resourceful as his U. S. compeer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up and down the line, company presidents were in agreement with their compeer of Nash Motors: "In the automobile industry we look for a big year."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Pythagoras, old compeer," he said with a shrug of his broad shoulders, "what would you take to be walking at this moment in that man's shoes?"

From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy




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