| 单词 | welsh aunt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWelsh aunt Welsh aunt n. now historical and rare a female first cousin of a person's parent. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > cousin > [noun] > parent's first cousin Welsh uncle1747 Welsh aunt1820 1820 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 194 There is no room here to tell you about your little Welsh uncles, Alfred and Southey, nor about your little Welsh aunt, Georgiana. 1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte I. iii. 31 ‘Their child is my first cousin once removed, and not my niece!’.. ‘As far as I can make out the position, it comes to mighty near the same thing; you're what they call her Welsh aunt, anyhow.’ 1908 L. A. Tollemache Old & Odd Memories vii. 255 The lady was..her first cousin once removed, or, as we should say in Cheshire, her Welsh aunt. 2003 E. O. Somerville & V. M. Ross in G. C. Schoolfield Baedeker of Decadence xi. 150 Pretty Francie, now nineteen, has been invited by her ‘Welsh aunt’ (the working title of the novel, meaning ‘a first cousin of father or mother’), to spend the summer at Tally Ho. < as lemmas |
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