cousinage

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cousinage

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From Middle English cosynage, from Old French cosinage. Compare cosinage, cozenage. By surface analysis, cousin + -age.

noun cousinages

countable, obsolete, uncountable relationship; kinship 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.

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@misc{cousinage_2026,
  title = {cousinage},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cousinage},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}