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/

• confrère

  (file)

confrère m (plural confrères, feminine consœur)

1. colleague, fellow, peer

• consœur

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

• conférer, forcener, renforce, renforcé