compeer

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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."

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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."

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"Indeed not, old compeer," said Diogenes with a hearty laugh, "it shall be the portrait of a Laughing Cavalier."

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