cousinette

noun cousinettes

1. countable, uncountable A type of soup containing chard and sorrel. Another soup is cousinette, a vegetable broth made with beet greens, spinach, lettuce, sorrel, and cousine (a wild member of the mallow family). Sometimes cousinette is thickened with cornmeal, in which case it is called jerbilhou.
2. countable, informal, uncountable A young female cousin. But his wants are really few; his tastes were naturally simple; he had been becoming blase/ on everything, when he found his occupation as an artist gone; and he is consoled besides by the love of the cousinette, who has proved that her giddiness was only skin-deep by giving him a marvellous proof o