Meanings
nounmilk sister (plural milk sisters)
plural milk sisters · alternative milk-sister
- A female milk sibling.
In this shop, I always used to play hide-and-seek with Marie, my wet nurse's daughter, who in fact is my milk sister, […]
2007, Jenny Erpenbeck, The Book of Words (trans. Susan Bernofsky), New Directions (2007; original German novel published 2004), page 46
Translations
French sœur de lait
- sœur de laitfemale milk sibling
German Milchschwester
- Milchschwesterfemale milk sibling
Latin collactia, conlacticia
- collactiafemale milk sibling
- conlacticiafemale milk sibling
- collacteafemale milk sibling
- collacticiafemale milk sibling
- conlactiafemale milk sibling
- collactaneafemale milk sibling
- conlacteafemale milk sibling
Romanian soră de lapte
- soră de laptefemale milk sibling
Spanish hermana de leche
- hermana de lechefemale milk sibling
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Chicago
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