lares and penates
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Her lares and penates range from Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a week's time Mrs. Rachel Lynde would move to Green Gables and set up her lares and penates in the erstwhile spare room, which was already prepared for her coming.
From Anne of Avonlea by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Thereupon the inner habitants of the deserted equipages emerged from amid their lares and penates, and met face to face.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
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)
A quinzied mother-in-law had knocked his lares and penates sky-high.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.
