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单词 to call cousins
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to call cousins (also †sisters, †brothers, etc.)
b. to call cousins (also †sisters, †brothers, etc.): to address or refer to each other as ‘cousin’ (also ‘sister’, ‘brother’, etc.) as a sign of close friendship or kinship; to claim kinship with.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > cousin > be a cousin [verb (intransitive)] > call each other cousin
to call cousins1598
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > sister > be a sister [verb (intransitive)] > call each other sister
to call sisters1598
1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. Dv Eli. Giue me the place acording to my calling. Mar. What skill for places, do we not all call sisters, Eli. Noe by my fayth I am a countesse now.
1609 Lives 19 Late Pyrates sig. B4v My first meeting with Captaine Iennings, who at sea together did call brothers.
1613 J. Marston & W. Barksted Insatiate Countesse i. sig. B We two that any time these fourteene yeeres haue called sisters.
a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) ii. sig. C4 So neer I am to him, we must call Cousins.
1668 G. Etherege She wou'd if she Cou'd i. i. 6 Sir Joslin Jolly, A Kinsman of my Wifes, and my Neighbour in the Country; we call Brothers, he came up to Town With me, and lodgeth in the same house.
1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. ii. i. 194 After..the two Youths had contracted an Intimacy, so that it was grown up to a kind of Affection between them, they agreed in the first Place to call Brothers.
1751 H. Walpole Corr. (1837) I. 156 Pray do you call cousins.
1808 W. Scott Autobiogr. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) 6 My father used to call cousin, as they say, with the Campbells of Blythswood.
1876 B. C. Curteis In Marsh i. 20 Though many people would have now liked to call kin with Miss Philly, Miss Philly would call kin with nobody.
1939 E. Marsh Number of People vi. 126 My only discovery of the faintest interest was that Wilfrid Blunt could call cousins with Shelley through a common Sussex ancestress.
1986 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 27 576 The Lagosians can still ‘call cousins’ with members of similar élite groups as far up the West Coast as The Gambia.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 51/1 Call cousins, regard one another, perhaps loosely, as cousins.
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