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Definition of Cousinhoods
1. cousinhood [n] - See also: cousinhood
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cousinhoods
Literary usage of Cousinhoods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to Modern English History by William Johnson Cory (1880)
"... after leading houses ; each connection had included gentlemen who were not in
the cousinhoods, but sat by permission for the appropriated boroughs. ..."
2. The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China by George Dodd (1859)
"... it came to pass that the Bengal army gradually assumed the character of a vast
aggregate of brotherhoods and cousinhoods—consisting chiefly of men ..."
3. The Zemindary Settlement of Bengal by R. H. Hollingbery (1879)
"... or near their estates; clusters of well-built mansions are to be found in the
interior of most districts, where cousinhoods or brotherhoods of ..."
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