Age-mates

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  1. 1
    plural of age-mate form-of, plural

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"In Bali, the intergenerational forgetting of names is institutionalized. A woman will be known by her given name to peers. When she bears a son, the boy's age-mates will refer to her as "the mother of so-and-so.""

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