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From: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
Date: 19990101
Author:Jennifer Speake and Mark LaFlaur
lar noun (in sense 1 also Lar ) plural lars, lares
L16 Latin .1. L16 Roman History A household or ancestral god. Frequently in plural , the protective gods of a house; household gods; also, the home. Cf. penates .
2. E19 The common or white-handed gibbon, Hylobates lar, of Thailand and Malaysia. More fully lar gibbon .
The phrase lares et penates (or lares and penates ) is used figuratively of those components of a household that the owner holds dearest; thus in 1775 Horace Walpole wrote in a letter “I am returned to my own Lares and Penates—to my dogs and cats”.
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