cousinage
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English cosynage, from Old French cosinage. Compare cosinage, cozenage. By surface analysis, cousin + -age.
Noun
[edit]cousinage (countable and uncountable, plural cousinages)
- (obsolete) relationship; kinship
- 2004 June 27, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “The Book of Isaiah”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Born in Riga in 1909 into a vast cousinage that included the Lubavitcher rebbes, Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin was taken to Petrograd as a small boy, and then to London in 1921 when the Bolsheviks allowed his prosperous (and fortunate) parents to leave.
References
[edit]- “cousinage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]cousinage
- Alternative form of cosynage
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