père et filsn.
/ˌpɛː eɪ ˈfiːs/, U.S. /ˌpɛ(ə)r eɪ ˈfis/ Originally in French contexts: father and son or (occasionally) sons.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > [noun] > father and son
père et fils1857
1857 D. P. Kidder & J. C. Fletcher Brazil & Brazilians 164 The novels of Balzac, Eugene Sue, Dumas père et fils, [etc.].
1867 T. Dunn Ambrose Fecit xviii. 89 The three Rapeljes, pere et fils, were very proud of their Dutch ancestors.
1871 D. G. Rossetti Let. Aug. (1967) III. 963 Constant calls on Urizen père et fils..in the nature of supplications.
1962 Observer 1 July 19/4 Through this gate came Agamemnon the victim and Orestes the avenger, prototypes of the two Hamlets, père et fils.
1978 N. Marsh Grave Mistake iv. 113 You should hear the Rattisbons, père et fils, on the subject.
1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. (Weekend section) p. v/4 Most readers..will be pleased to see Larkin, Amis père et fils, and other contemporaries represented.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1857- free-standing
- free-styled
- free-swimming
- free-tailed
- free-thinker
- free-thinking
- free-thought
- free-throw circle
- free-throw lane
- free-throw line
- free-to-air
- free-tongued
- free-trader
- free-trading
- free-tradist
- free-verser
- free-warder
- free-wheel
- free-wheeled
- free-wheeler
- free-wheeling
- free-will offering
- free-willed
- free-willer
- free-willing