cousinette

English

Noun

cousinette (countable and uncountable, plural cousinettes)

1. A type of soup containing chard and sorrel.
   • 1997, Paola Gavin, French Vegetarian Cooking, →ISBN:

     Another soup is cousinette, a vegetable broth made with beet greens, spinach, lettuce, sorrel, and cousine (a wild member of the mallow family). Sometimes cousinette is thickened with cornmeal, in which case it is called jerbilhou.

2. (informal) A young female cousin.
   • 1883, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:

     But his wants are really few; his tastes were naturally simple; he had been becoming blase/ on everything, when he found his occupation as an artist gone; and he is consoled besides by the love of the cousinette, who has proved that her giddiness was only skin-deep by giving him a marvellous proof of disinterestedness.

   • 1889, Thomas William Robertson, The Principal Dramatic Works of Thomas William Robertson, pages 434–435:

     Pa made much of me—ma made much of me ; so did her brothers and sisters, and uncles and aunts, and cousins and cousinettes, and cousiniculings.

   • 1902, The Independent - Volume 54, Part 2, page 1772:

     So she remained with the cousinettes while the cousins took a walk.

   • 1981, Bruce Mason, Blood of the Lamb, →ISBN:

     And uncles and aunts have I none; grandfathers and grandmothers have I none; cousins and — cousinettes have I none!

   • 2014, Robert Downs, Pasture to Paddy: A Novel, →ISBN, page 203:

     Victor, his cousinettes and I spent a quiet night roaming Sai Gon.

French

Alternative forms

• coussinette

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.zi.nɛt/

Noun

cousinette f (plural cousinettes)

1. a variety (cultivar) of apple