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cousinette en · NOUN

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1. (countable, uncountable) A type of soup containing chard and sorrel.
   • Another soup is cousinette, a vegetable broth made with beet greens, spinach, lettuce, sorrel, and cousine (a wild member of the mallow family). Sometimes cousinette is thickened with cornmeal, in which case it is called jerbilhou. 1997, Paola Gavin, French Vegetarian Cooking, →ISBN:
2. (countable, informal, uncountable) A young female cousin.
   • Victor, his cousinettes and I spent a quiet night roaming Sai Gon. 2014, Robert Downs, Pasture to Paddy: A Novel, →ISBN, page 203:
   • Pa made much of me—ma made much of me ; so did her brothers and sisters, and uncles and aunts, and cousins and cousinettes, and cousiniculings. 1889, Thomas William Robertson, The Principal Dramatic Works of Thomas William Robertson, pages 434–435:
   • So she remained with the cousinettes while the cousins took a walk. 1902, The Independent - Volume 54, Part 2, page 1772:
   • But his wants are really few; his tastes were naturally simple; he had been becoming blase/ on everything, when he found his occupation as an artist gone; and he is consoled besides by the love of the cousinette, who has proved that her giddiness was only skin-deep by giving him a marvellous proof of disinterestedness. 1883, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
   • And uncles and aunts have I none; grandfathers and grandmothers have I none; cousins and — cousinettes have I none! 1981, Bruce Mason, Blood of the Lamb, →ISBN:

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