cousinageとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cousinage (countable and uncountable, plural cousinages)

1. (obsolete) relationship; kinship
   • 2004 June 27, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “The Book of Isaiah”, in The New York Times‎:

     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.

参照

• “cousinage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.