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- noun in the plural The relationship between two cousins or two groups of cousins whose parents are brother and sister, respectively
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Examples
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Traditionally, Huaorani families engage in endogamy -- especially cross-cousin marriages.
Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe Suzan Crane 2011
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Traditionally, Huaorani families engage in endogamy -- especially cross-cousin marriages.
Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe Suzan Crane 2011
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Sun's wife answered and said that Sun wasn't home, but would his cross-cousin like to come in and wait for him?
Coyote Story 2008
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Usually the cultures where these kinship questions are a going concern - and also studied - are places where marriages are arranged i.e. matrilateral cross-cousin unions, so not just arranged, but very narrowly defined as to who can marry whom.
Sisterhood is Powerful: Lessons from Gelada & Hamadryas Baboons Field Notes 2008
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Finally he decided to go and visit his cross-cousin Sun.
Coyote Story 2008
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: Im not entirely certain about all those cross-cousin links Myste was finding.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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: Im not entirely certain about all those cross-cousin links Myste was finding.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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Tsoay was one of the youngest of their group, Buck's own cross-cousin and near-brother.
The Defiant Agents Andre Norton 1958
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He did not know which of eighty-odd relations "cousin" meant with respect to Leda, though he supposed that she must be a first cross-cousin.
Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957
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Many clans set up special marriage rules for clan members, and after some time cross-cousin marriages between two or three families were legally allowed; such marriages tended to fasten bonds between clans and to prevent the loss of property by marriage.
A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949
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