cousinage

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noun

relationship; kinship

OriginMiddle English cosynage ← Old French cosinage →
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Meanings

nouncousinage (countable and uncountable, plural cousinages)

plural cousinages

  1. countableobsoleteuncountablerelationship; kinship

    Born in Riga in 1909 into a vast cousinage that included the Lubavitcher rebbes, Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin was taken to Petrograd as a small boy, and then to London in 1921 when the Bolsheviks allowed his prosperous (and fortunate) parents to leave.

    2004 June 27, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “The Book of Isaiah”, in The New York Times

Origin

  1. Old Frenchcosinage
  2. Middle Englishcosynage
  3. Englishcousinage

From Middle English cosynage, from Old French cosinage. Compare cosinage, cozenage. By surface analysis, cousin + -age.

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Cite this entry
APA

cousinage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cousinage

MLA

“cousinage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cousinage. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cousinage,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cousinage.

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