Citations:cousin-aunt

English citations of cousin-aunt

Noun: "one's parent's female first cousin" edit

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1855 March 29, “Struggles in Life”, in The Leisure Hour‎^[1], volume 4, number 170, page 195:
This and a great deal more Miss Filmer might have said if she had wished to widen the breach between little Ellen and her cousin-aunt; […]
1950, Savitri Devi Nanda, The City of Two Gateways: The Autobiography of an Indian Girl, G. Allen & Unwin:
It was not only the case with my uncle, aunt and grandmother but also with my cousin-aunts, they showed me tenderness and love beyond a niece's desert and took me out with them for drives to their orchards or baths; […]
1956, Hallam Tennyson, The Dark Goddess, Vallentine, page 43:
Asha suffered an influx of cousin brothers-in-law, cousin aunts, and just plain cousins up from Midnapore to sponge.
1976, Agnes Smedley, Daughter of Earth, The Feminist Press, page 214:
It had been nearly fifteen years since I had seen my cousin-aunt, Mildred, just my age, and then she was a bad, spoiled little girl.
1994, Hans Kasdorf, “Becoming a Missiologist of the Road: Personal Recollections and Reflections”, in Mission Focus‎^[2], volume 2, page 159:
Shortly thereafter, as Providence would have it, I received a letter from my cousin-aunt, Katherine Nickel, author, artist and teacher in Reedley, California.
2003, Nargis, Daddy: A Bouquet of Memories, Minerva Press, →ISBN:
She was his godmother and another one of my innumerable cousin aunts, who lived with us.
2004, Natarah Anderson, Visions from the Past (A True Story), AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 308:
While we were steadily being pushed out the door, the Rev and my cousin aunt were still arguing behind us.
2008, Di Brandt, “My Breasts Had Become Eyes”, in Shannon Cowan, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Cathy Stonehouse, editors, Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 53:
I grew up in a traditionalist Mennonite farming village in southern Manitoba, surrounded by other villages, filled with dozens and dozens of boisterous, cheerful, eccentric aunts and uncles, cousins, second-cousins, third-cousins, cousin-aunts, cousin-uncles, […]
2008, Kal Renganathan Sharma, Bioinformatics: Sequence Alignment and Markov Models, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page xv:
[…] and the passing of my cousin-aunt, Dr. Renganayaki Mahapatra, Head of the Department of Languages at the University of Calcutta, India, in June 2007.
2009, David Manners, In the Shadow of Crows, Reportage Press, →ISBN:
They never seemed to tire of our annual arrival, nor we of the joyful embraces from cousin-brothers and cousin-sisters, the affectionate ahashis from cousin-uncles and cousin-aunts.
2011, Rosalinda Swaim, Rosa's Vision and the World of Revelation, Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN:
And then the next day her cousin aunt tries to help her to look for a job, for her.