单词 | scotch cousinship |
释义 | > as lemmasScotch cousinship Scotch cousinship n. now rare the relationship of ‘Scotch cousins’; a distant cousinship.figurative in quot. 1790. ΚΠ 1790 Calcutta Chron. 14 Oct. A subject, which to me, appears to have no relation to the original topic; but a friend now with me..assured me that he has traced it from its first source, and finds it owns a Scotch cousinship with it. 1827 C. I. Johnstone Elizabeth de Bruce I. xvi. 206 Shall I pretend a Scotch Cousinship with the ancestry of Monkshaugh? 1864 Times 10 May 14/3 William of Glenfalloch..was related to that nobleman in a Scotch cousinship of ten removes. 1920 E. H. Coleridge Life T. Coutts, Banker v. 62 Apart from a Scotch cousinship, there may have been some early tie..which brought the two men together. < as lemmas |
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