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- noun Plural form of
padre .
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Examples
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After taking leave of the Virgin, we visited the padre in his own old house, attached to the church, where his only attendant, as usual among the padres, is an old woman.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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In 1702 it was consigned to the superintendence of an order of monks, called the padres Belemitas, and in 1822 it was incorporated with the hospital of San Lazaro.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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Yet in 'padres' hope and expectation should predominate, and these as based less upon results achieved than upon the mutual understanding, respect, and indeed affection which increasingly unite them to the men whom they would serve.
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Is the kingdom of heaven best advanced by men who strike the world as being "padres" or by "turbulent priests"?
A Padre in France George A. Birmingham 1907
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On the table beside the stove were Peter's cherished belongings -- his buck-skin pouch and the pipe which Jannie Grobelaar had carved for him in St Helena, an aluminium field match-box I had given him, a cheap large-print Bible such as padres present to well-disposed privates, and an old battered _Pilgrim's Progress_ with gaudy pictures.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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Maybe i missed it, but i haven’t seen anything from Geoff on the current craze that is sweeping Mission Bay, otherwise known as the padres estate sale ..
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I’m am 9 years old and the padres are my favorite team.
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I heard the negro servants without expressing their astonishment that, now as massa was gone, missus wouldn't call in Miss Jane (the maid), and make her 'peak' to her; adding -- 'Rosevale not good house to lib by himself in -- plenty "padres" die dere, plenty doppies (ghosts) come up dere from de grabe-yard!'
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852 Various 1836
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[...] ¿Por qué los padres temen que sus hijos lleguen tarde a casa?
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Las películas están llenas de amor donde los padres no lo aprueban.
VAMPIROS LOBOS EL LADO OSCURO | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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