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Penates   Listen
noun
Penates  n. pl.  (Rom. Antiq.) The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Penates" Quotes from Famous Books



... rifle-pits dug, etc. The third year of the war is the third terror upon Washington, and upon those counterfeit penates. ...
— Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 • Adam Gurowski

... artists who have been setting up their Lares and Penates in Rome at various periods during the early and into the later years of the nineteenth century have found the Eternal City in strong contrast with its twentieth-century aspects, however it may have differed from the Rome of the Popes. The earlier American artists to seek the Seven-hilled City ...
— Italy, the Magic Land • Lilian Whiting



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