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‖ père|pɛr|
Also pere.
[Fr., = father.]
1. Applied as a prefix to the name of a French priest; = father n. 6 e.
1619J. Chamberlain Let. 30 Oct. (1939) II. 270 The Jesuites hold a chapter of theyre order at Rome whether Pere Coton is sent out of France. 1699M. Lister Journey to Paris 96, I bought the works of Pere Pezaron, a Bernadin, now Abbot de Charmoyse near Rheims. 1777P. Thicknesse Year's Journey I. xx. 174 Nor did the whole community afford but a single member (pere tender, a Fleming) who could speak French. 1879R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 119 There was Père Apollinaire hauling his barrow. 1978Times 3 Nov. 7/1 (Advt.), The Sayings of Père Patriarche... ‘To buy wine with uncertainty lacks any amusement.’
2. The father, senior: appended to a name to distinguish between a father and son of the same name. Cf. fils.
1802M. Edgeworth Let. 8 Dec. (1979) 58 M. Delessert père at a card table with another gentleman. 1858O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-Table 28, I have not taken the trouble to date them, as Raspail, père, used to date every proof he sent to the printer. 1893E. Dowson Let. c 28 Nov. (1967) 299, I am dining with Horne & Horne Père at the Constitutional tonight. 1907‘Elizabeth’ Fraulein Schmidt & Mr. Anstruther xxxiii. 120 Collins père is a person who makes nails in Manchester. 1948E. S. Turner Boys will be Boys v. 80 It will be seen that there was a Harkaway père and a Harkaway fils. 1964Guardian 18 June 9/3 Everything about Tabarly père gives a kind of ageless impression of the sea... All this is highly relevant in considering Tabarly fils. 1972J. Wain in Cox & Dyson 20th-Cent. Mind I. xi. 364 Yeats père moved his household many times, and William was educated in London or Dublin by fits and starts. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Nov. 10/2 Zola père was a Venetian of distinguished family.
3. In phrases père de famille |də famij| [see famille], father of a family, family man; père et fils |e fis| [see fils], father and son.
1820M. Edgeworth Let. 14 May (1979) 124, I could not see in either his figure or face any hint of the young père de famille. 1853Thackeray Let. in Lett. A. T. Ritchie (1924) iv. 52 The quantity of acquaintances and ½ acquaintances that as père de famille I did not care to make whole acquaintances. 1862― Philip II. ii. 33, I am secretly of the disposition of the time-honoured père de famille in the comedies. 1871D. G. Rossetti Let. ? Aug. (1967) III. 963 Constant calls on Urizen père et fils..in the nature of supplications. 1962Observer 1 July 19/4 Through this gate came Agamemnon the victim and Orestes the avenger, prototypes of the two Hamlets, père et fils. 1964Ibid. 27 Sept. 24/6 A rather stuffy English père de famille. 1964House & Garden Oct. 111/1 In this dual promotion père et fils certainly succeeded. 1973I. Butler Eldest Brother viii. 78 The rôle of ‘père de famille’ and respectable bourgeois. 1978N. Marsh Grave Mistake iv. 113 You should hear the Rattisbons, père et fils, on the subject. |