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grand-niece
[See grand a. 12 b.]
The daughter of a nephew or niece.
1830in Booth Analyt. Dict. 1832Marryat N. Forster xxxix, The colonel..requested his grand-niece to accept of his hospitality. 1860Sala Baddington Peerage xliv, Lord Baddington the fourth had not deemed his grand-nieces worthy of a thought..The grand-niece-in-law had hitherto pertinaciously refused to hold any intercourse with Lord Baddington's widow. |