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Definition of Matres
1. mater [n] - See also: mater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matres
Literary usage of Matres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mother's Day: Its History, Origin, Celebration, Spirit, and Significance as by Susan Tracy Rice, Robert Haven Schauffler (1915)
"... them as our right — and think no more about them, giving them belated appreciation
when they are gone. * By courtesy of the Overland Monthly. matres ..."
2. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society edited by Charles William Sutton (1898)
"The Deae matres. Stone found at Newcastle.—Cat. Black Gate Mus., p. 3. Fig 8.
... 19 grs. f the worship of the Dea~ The letters are stamped with matres. ..."
3. Collectanea Anglo-premonstratensia: Documents Drawn from the Original by Francis Aidan Gasquet, Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), Premonstratensians (1904)
"... suos;l et qui vobiscum vivunt in claustro sint vobis patres et matres, fratres
et sorores, tarn affectu, ..."
4. Ballades and Verses Vain by Andrew Lang (1884)
"ALMAE matres. (St. Andrews, 1862. Oxford, 1865.) ". Andrews by the Northern sea,
A haunted town it is to me! A little city, worn and grey, The grey North ..."
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