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cross-cousin
[ kraws-kuhz-uhn, kros- ]
noun
- a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's brother or one's father's sister.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cross-cousin1
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Example Sentences
Tsoay was one of the youngest of their group, Buck's own cross-cousin and near-brother.
Certain of the features which follow from the cross-cousin marriage may be the result of another marriage regulation.
One feature, however, of the system of relationship is just such as would follow from the cross-cousin marriage.
These usages are exactly such as would follow from the cross-cousin marriage.
Similarly, a woman calls her cross-cousin she-chay-she, while her husbands brother and her sisters husband are called she-chay.
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