Cousinage
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 relationship; kinship countable, obsolete, uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Middle English cosynage, from Old French cosinage. Compare cosinage, cozenage. By surface analysis, cousin + -age.
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