lares and penates
Example Sentences
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Her lares and penates range from Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Furthermore, they should own their furniture—at least some of it; it should represent their own joint taste; the possession of some lares and penates is a very good basis for a lifetime partnership.
From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by Bigelow, William F. (William Frederick)
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
She did not represent the ancestral gods, the lares and penates, since she was not descended from them.
From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Knight, Melvin Moses
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
