cousin
“a common expression from one kinsman to another, out of the
degree of parent and child, brother and sister”
(RITSON)
, and which
“seems to have been used instead of our kinsman and kinswoman, and to have supplied the place of both”
(MALONE)
, 1 HENRY IV., i. 3.
292; ROMEO AND JULIET, i. 5.
28; iii. 1. 143; MACBETH, i.
2. 24; i. 4. 14; HAMLET, i.
2. 64, etc.;
“cousins”
RICHARD III., ii. 2. 8.
(grandchildren)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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