noncousin
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]noncousin (plural noncousins)
- One who is not a cousin.
- 2009 June 7, Paul Berman, “Telling the Tale”, in New York Times[1]:
- The opening sections of Martin’s biography are clogged with genealogical chronicles of the Garcías (the father’s family) and the Márquezes (the mother’s), snaking into the 19th century — a preposterously tangled story of cousins and noncousins united in wedlock, nonwedlock, near-incest, vendetta-mania and frontier trailblazing in the Colombian wilds […]