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Definition of Stepsisters
1. stepsister [n] - See also: stepsister
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stepsisters
Literary usage of Stepsisters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin by Marian Roalfe Cox (1892)
"She goes where stepsisters are, and they are most envious of her beauty. ...
stepsisters try to make her envious by telling all the lovely things they have ..."
2. Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin by Marian Roalfe Cox (1893)
"She goes where stepsisters are, and they are most envious of her beauty. ...
stepsisters try to make her envious by telling all the lovely things they have ..."
3. Journeys Through Bookland by Charles H. Sylvester (1922)
"The stepsisters require Cinderella to assist them to dress, and abuse her shamefully.
... The prince marries Cinderella, and she forgives her stepsisters. ..."
4. Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Edna Henry Lee Turpin (1903)
"asked her stepsisters. " We do not wish her. there. ... Thus she became so black
and smutty that her stepsisters called her Cinderella, or little ash girl. ..."