cousinship
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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They have played for years in Anaheim, in Orange County, yet they’re historically and legally yoked to L.A. in a freeway-friction cousinship to which L.A. is pretty much indifferent but one that grieves Orange County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
And, seizing upon the cousinship, he began to call me Du.
From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth von Arnim
"It is a puzzling situation, certainly," said Armathwaite, quickly alive to the fact that, in Whittaker's presence, at any rate, the cousinship had been dropped.
From The House 'Round the Corner by Louis Tracy
He claimed cousinship with thirty farmers, spread over that district which formed the Marais, extending from Saint Gilles to the Ile de Bouin.
From Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field by Ren? Bazin
I began, too, to get terribly jealous of Tom Cleaveland, who, by right of his cousinship, arrived at a degree of intimacy I could not attain.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
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