lares and penates

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The scant lares and penates were sufficient to explain something of this shiplike trimness of the housekeeping.

From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)

There, for reasons understood then only by himself, had Sir Adrian elected, about the "year seven" of this century and in the prime of his age, to transplant his lares and penates.

From The Light of Scarthey by Castle, Egerton

But his father had thoughtfully taken an armful of lares and penates; and the accommodating nature of his son was, therefore, more conspicuous.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose

Evesham had given up his large, sunny room to Dorothy's mother, but he had not removed all his lares and penates.

From In Exile and Other Stories by Foote, Mary Hallock