lares and penates
Example Sentences
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Her lares and penates range from Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee.
From Time Magazine Archive
She did not represent the ancestral gods, the lares and penates, since she was not descended from them.
From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Knight, Melvin Moses
Our lares and penates were sent by freight on December 17.
From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams
When the family to which we belong moves into a flat they set us in the front window and we become lares and penates, fly-paper and the peripatetic emblem of "Home Sweet Home."
From Waifs and Strays Part 1 by Henry, O.
The scant lares and penates were sufficient to explain something of this shiplike trimness of the housekeeping.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
