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twin-sister
(Now usu. as two words.)
[twin a. 3.]
A sister born at the same birth, as one of twins. Also fig. (Cf. twin-brother.)
1707Norris Treat. Humility v. 213 Humility..with its twin-sister meekness. a1721Prior Colin's Mistakes x, Twin Sisters still were Ignorance and Pride. 1798Wordsw. Peter Bell Prol. xvi, A Boat twin-sister of the crescent-moon. 1884W. G. Horder in Chr. World Pulpit 12 Nov. 311/1 Music is twin-sister to poetry. 1885M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird i, Twin sisters who had loved each other with more than common love.
Hence twin-sisterhood, the relation of twin sisters.
1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 164 Never was the..tie of twin-sisterhood more closely knit than in these two charming young women. |