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
Actually, it is something between prose and poetry that Nabokov has used�he has retained Pushkin's iambic tetrameter�and the result is a recognizable and respectable cousinship.
From Time Magazine Archive
The novel's outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern�the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town.
From Time Magazine Archive
And our king counts cousinship with most of the high families in the archipelago, and traces his descent to a shark and a heroic woman.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Bazin, Ren?
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