confrère

confrère (plural confrères)

1. Alternative spelling of confrere.
   • 1943 November and December, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:

     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.

• enforcer, reconfer

Back-formation from confrérie, with the influence of frère (“brother”).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fʁɛʁ/

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confrère m (plural confrères, feminine consœur)

1. colleague, fellow, peer
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Son confrère se taisait, ayant tout à l'heure reçu confidentiellement une forte semonce à propos de son émétique, de sorte que ce bon Canivet, si arrogant et verbeux lors du pied-bot, était très modeste aujourd'hui; il souriait sans discontinuer, d'une manière approbative.

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• “confrère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• conférer, forcener, renforce, renforcé