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Scotch sister en · NOUN

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1. (obsolete) A distant relation; possibly a cousin.
   • [S]he had heard of the probability of her having a sister—(she called her a sister, but whether it was a Scotch sister, or a sister à la mode de Brétagne, would have puzzled most people)[.] 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 19, in Wives and Daughters, London: Smith, Elder & Co.:

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