compeer

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Compeer Forbes, who is also a grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, did not relinquish his interest in Japanese affairs with his Ambassadorship.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he elsewhere tells us that he and Coleridge hold the same principles in the Art Poetical; and among his Lyrical Ballads he admitted the three finest compositions of his illustrious Compeer.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

Compeer, kom-pēr′, n. one who is equal to another: a companion: an associate.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Give ear, O king, to The Tale of the Two Sharpers who each Cozened his Compeer.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Two Sharpers who each cozened his Compeer, Tale of the, i.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir