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parentage

 noun
     
Related topics: Nationality and Race, Family
par‧ent‧age [uncountable]
SSFSAN someone's parents and the country and social class they are from:
an English-born man with Irish parentage
He was born in France in 1670 of unknown parentage (=nobody knows who his parents were).
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