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  • noun Plural form of compeer.

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Examples

  • After their tea, Madame Hsing and her compeers were the first to rise and come and wait on dowager lady Chia, while she had hers.

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

  • Burbage, Henslowe and other theatrical managers, were ever on the lookout for plays to suit cash customers, and of course, the Bard of Avon had first call, because his plays went on the various stages like a torchlight procession, while those of his so-called compeers, struggled through the acts and scenes with only the flicker and sputter of tallow dips of dramatic thought.

    Shakspere, Personal Recollections John A. Joyce

  • After their tea, Madame Hsing and her compeers were the first to rise and come and wait on dowager lady Chia, while she had hers.

    Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

  • Members again had a good instruct of a participation in a surrounded by of spouses as good as partners as good as friends of a compeers in a Society.

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

  • Members again had a good instruct of a participation in a surrounded by of spouses as good as partners as good as friends of a compeers in a Society.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • My friends and compeers and heroes at Librivox are celebrating their first birthday right now, and so I felt it necessary to add my kudos to their basic first-year achivements:

    The Five Boons of Life | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2006

  • Had I been strong and lusty, able to brandish the spear in battle's onset, my Theban compeers too, I would have stood by thy children to champion them; but now my happy youth is gone and I am left.

    Heracles 2008

  • Had I been strong and lusty, able to brandish the spear in battle's onset, my Theban compeers too, I would have stood by thy children to champion them; but now my happy youth is gone and I am left.

    Heracles 2008

  • Humphrey Gilbert, most pious and most learned of seamen and of cavaliers, beloved and honored above all his compeers by Queen

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • Little thinking that in this, he only showed again the difference between himself and his compeers, poor tiny Paul set it forth to Miss

    Dombey and Son 2007

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