courtship

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Even she and Lansing, in spite of their unmixed Americanism, their substantial background of old-fashioned cousinships in New York and Philadelphia, were as mentally detached, as universally at home, as touts at an International Exhibition.

From The Glimpses of the Moon by Wharton, Edith

Fictitious sisterships, brotherships, and cousinships are devices to push things along, well known to seventeen and even more advanced ages.

From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Tarkington, Booth

The whole family connection was composed of people so little given to letters that it is hard to determine the proper names and relationships of the younger members amid the tangle of traditional cousinships.

From Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by Nicolay, John George