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Subject: Re: [Q-R] Translation - Demi-frere
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:30:55 EDT

In a message dated 9/12/02 11:50:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:

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Does demi-frere mean only half brother or can
it be ever be used to mean brother-in-law, (which I though
was beau-frere)? This was in an obit in a french
language newspaper of Woonsocket RI in 1924

Thank you,
Lisa
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"Beau-frère" can mean either "half-brother" or "brother-in-law".
"Demi-frère" means "half-brother", literally and exclusively.

Fr Owen Taggart

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