great-grandaunt
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Because my great-grandaunt, Maritcha Lyons, left a memoir, I’ve been able to learn something about the work experiences of my great-great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth Hewlett Marshall.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2012
With sweeping Spanish hospitality, they installed her in their Palacio de las Due�as in the bed room once used by France's Empress Eug�nie, great-grandaunt of the present duchess.
From Time Magazine Archive
With languid step she ascended the stair, and was presently beside her great-grandaunt, Patricia Bower.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander
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