lares and penates

NOUN

household gods

Synonyms

WEAK

Hestia Vesta household effects household possessions

Example Sentences

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Her lares and penates range from Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

But if you and Miss Lovell would come over one day soon and help me to decide about the disposition of my lares and penates, it would be the greatest help.

From The Vision of Desire by Pedler, Margaret

Her lares and penates were being attacked, and she had come from the heart of her solitude to defend them.

From Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth by Green, Anna Katharine

We had been quartered in this border town for more than a year, and the senior officers’ lady-wives had brought their lares and penates in three bullock-carts a-piece.

From Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories by Merriman, Henry Seton