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lares and penates

noun as in household gods

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There were also public Lares and Penates, who did for the city what the others did for the family.

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The most prominent and revered of them all were the Lares and Penates.

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Starting with the mid-19th-century former rectory in which he lives, he introduces us to a universe of fact, anecdote, history and whimsy spun out of the lares and penates around him.

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Nevertheless, as a mark of particular respect to some important chief now and then, affectionate survivors exempted his corpse from the oven, and smoking it entire, set it up amongst the Maori lares and penates as an ornament.

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Tutelary divinities of Roman households, with the Lares and Penates, 203.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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