单词 | twin sister |
释义 | twin sistern. A sister born at the same birth, as one of twins. Also figurative. (Cf. twin brother n.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > sister > [noun] > twin-sister twin sister1707 1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility v. 213 Humility..with its twin-sister meekness. 1721 M. Prior Colin's Mistakes x. 6 Twin Sisters still were Ignorance and Pride. 1798 W. Wordsworth Peter Bell Prol. xvi A Boat twin-sister of the crescent-moon. 1884 W. G. Horder in Christian World Pulpit 12 Nov. 311/1 Music is twin-sister to poetry. 1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird i Twin sisters who had loved each other with more than common love. Derivatives twin-sisterhood n. the relation of twin sisters. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > sister > [noun] > sisterly condition or relationship > of twins twin-sisterhood1824 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 164 Never was the..tie of twin-sisterhood more closely knit than in these two charming young women. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1707 |
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