cross-cousin

[ kraws-kuhz-uh n, kros- ]

/ ˈkrɔsˌkʌz ən, ˈkrɒs- /

a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's brother or one's father's sister.

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First recorded in 1930–35

One feature, however, of the system of relationship is just such as would follow from the cross-cousin marriage.
Kinship and Social Organisation|W. H. R. Rivers
Tsoay was one of the youngest of their group, Buck's own cross-cousin and near-brother.
The Defiant Agents|Andre Alice Norton
Similarly, a woman calls her cross-cousin she-chay-she, while her husbands brother and her sisters husband are called she-chay.
Kinship and Social Organisation|W. H. R. Rivers
Certain of the features which follow from the cross-cousin marriage may be the result of another marriage regulation.
Kinship and Social Organisation|W. H. R. Rivers

These usages are exactly such as would follow from the cross-cousin marriage.
Kinship and Social Organisation|W. H. R. Rivers