compeer

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"Ambassador Forbes is a worthy compeer of George Washington," declared Prince Tokugawa, President of the House of Peers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charles B. Cochran, the British Ziegfeld, is quite as resourceful as his U. S. compeer.

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A man "without a compeer . . . either in misery or in bliss."

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Up and down the line, company presidents were in agreement with their compeer of Nash Motors: "In the automobile industry we look for a big year."

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A bosom friend of Michelet, and his compeer in the attack on the Jesuits, was Edgar Quinet, who was born near Bourg in 1803, and died in 1875.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George