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Definitions

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  • noun Male first cousin of one's parent; one's male first cousin once removed.

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Examples

  • In the middle of the night, when only the single streetlight still burned in the tiny village where her cousin-aunt and cousin-uncle lived, miles from the nearest large town with only the mill employees for intelligent company, a shrill scream cut through the silence.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • In the middle of the night, when only the single streetlight still burned in the tiny village where her cousin-aunt and cousin-uncle lived, miles from the nearest large town with only the mill employees for intelligent company, a shrill scream cut through the silence.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • The car we 'borrowed' from a cousin-uncle (the same one that lend us our wedding car) …

    Crumbs In Life... 2009

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