cousinette

Noun

cousinette (countable and uncountable, plural cousinettes)

1. A type of soup containing chard and sorrel.
   • Another soup is cousinette, a vegetable broth made with beet greens, spinach, lettuce, sorrel, and cousine (a wild member of the mallow family). Sometimes cousinette is thickened with cornmeal, in which case it is called jerbilhou.1997, Paola Gavin, French Vegetarian Cooking, →ISBN
2. (informal) A young female cousin.
   • But his wants are really few; his tastes were naturally simple; he had been becoming blase/ on everything, when he found his occupation as an artist gone; and he is consoled besides by the love of the cousinette, who has proved that her giddiness was only skin-deep by giving him a marvellous proof...1883, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
   • Pa made much of me—ma made much of me ; so did her brothers and sisters, and uncles and aunts, and cousins and cousinettes, and cousiniculings.1889, Thomas William Robertson, The Principal Dramatic Works of Thomas William Robertson, pages 434–435