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pater coves

pater coves is the plural of pater cove.

Meaning of pater cove

Noun

pater cove (plural pater coves)

  1. (obsolete, thieves' cant) A hedge priest.

Questions about pater coves

What is pater coves the plural of?
Pater coves is the plural of pater cove.

Words near pater coves in the dictionary

  1. patents
  2. patents of precedence
  3. patentspeak
  4. pater
  5. pater cove
  6. pater coves
  7. pater familias
  8. patera
  9. paterae
  10. paterero
  11. patereroes

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