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Etymology

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From Middle English cosynage, from Old French cosinage. Compare cosinage, cozenage.

Noun

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cousinage (countable and uncountable, plural cousinages)

  1. (obsolete) relationship; kinship

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cousinage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Middle English

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Noun

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cousinage

  1. Alternative form of cosynage