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The filmmaker recounts the pleasures of cousinhood and family before the hurricane.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2022

Darwinism insists at best on the distant cousinhood of humanity.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2011

And she would talk to him of himself; of himself as divided from her in all things, except in cousinhood.

From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony

Courtesying, not very formally, she put out her hand, and said with a laugh— “I must beg to be considered among the cousinhood, or I shall feel like a stranger in your midst.”

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald

But, as I tell you, if there is a cousinhood or an unclehood, it is not a thing for shame.

From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)