"confrère" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1943 November and December, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 343",
          "text": "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.",
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  "word": "confrère"
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      "form": "confrères",
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        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1943 November and December, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 343",
          "text": "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.",
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