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
They erected their altars on the hills; they had their lares and penates to watch over their hearth-stones, and their vestal virgins kept everlasting vigil near the never-dying fires in the temples.
From Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) by Various
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.
Here were her lares and penates; and she was a goddess among lesser household gods.
From The Car of Destiny by Both, Armand
A few seconds later I had let myself in and was standing amongst my own lares and penates once more.
From Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance by Boothby, Guy
