grandaunt
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Outside, he waited for his mother, his sister and his baby grandaunt.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Neither niece nor baby grandaunt labored under any illusions on that account.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
She was Rahel’s baby grandaunt, her grandfather’s younger sister.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
The silence sat between grandniece and baby grandaunt like a third person.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
A few rooms away, while his baby grandaunt snored, Estha awoke.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
When the two royal grandaunts, Queen Maud of Norway and Louise, Princess Royal, both sisters of the King, rode out to see the newborn unchristened Duchess, ill luck attended them.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am sure that your grandaunts are even more glad to have you than I was sorry to let you go.
From Betty Leicester A Story For Girls by Jewett, Sarah Orne
I'm going to stay with my grandaunts this summer.
From Betty Leicester A Story For Girls by Jewett, Sarah Orne
I would, however, record my own boyish impressions, to the effect that one or two of my grandaunts were a caution to rattle-snakes.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix
One of the grandaunts was a sister of Heinrich Heine, the poet.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix
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