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cousinage

cousinage noun: relationship; kinship.

Noun

cousinage (countable and uncountable, plural cousinages)

  1. (obsolete) relationship; kinship
    • Born in Riga in 1909 into a vast cousinage that included the Lubavitcher rebbes, Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin was taken to Petrograd as a small boy, and then to London in 1921 when the Bolsheviks allowed his prosperous (and fortunate) parents to leave.2004 June 27, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “The Book of Isaiah”, in The New York Times

Forms of cousinage

pluralcousinages

Origin of cousinage

From Middle English cosynage, from Old French cosinage. Compare cosinage, cozenage. By surface analysis, cousin + -age.

Questions about cousinage

What does cousinage mean?
Cousinage means relationship; kinship.
What part of speech is cousinage?
Cousinage is a noun.
What is the plural of cousinage?
The plural of cousinage is cousinages.

Words near cousinage in the dictionary

  1. cousin-in-laws
  2. cousin-sister
  3. cousin-sisters
  4. cousin-uncle
  5. cousin-uncles
  6. cousinage
  7. cousinages
  8. cousinal
  9. cousincest
  10. Cousineau
  11. Cousineaus

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