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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable
Topics: law
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History
A variant of cousinage.
