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nounconfrère (plural confrères)
plural confrères
- alternativeAlternative spelling of confrere.
It consisted in the hope that a driver or fireman might be too incapacitated to carry on when, in true story-book fashion, the pupil would do the job, save the situation and find himself a hero among his confrères of the running shed.
1943 November and December, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 343
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