kinswoman
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The older woman kneels in front of Mary, who looks down tenderly and embraces her kinswoman, who is bearing St. John the Baptist.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2017
Later she refused to call her "daughter" in company, instead describing her as a "kinswoman" or "cousin".
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2015
A kinswoman plunged the child's arm into a bucket of cold water, but only up to the elbow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of this remarkable character Florence L. Dorsey, a kinswoman, has written a remarkable biography.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘Nay, cousin! they are not boys,’ said Ioreth to her kinswoman from Imloth Melui, who stood beside her.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Beauteous as herself are her kinswomen, the two sisters of King George II of Greece.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ajima meant something like “Auntie”; it was a term of great affection, reserved only for older kinswomen.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
And my father was among them, in the kind hands of his sgaiag and kinswomen, but in a vague indifference of grief.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
For he would neither marry again, nor trust his daughter to female nurses and servants, nor even admit any of his own kinswomen into the house.
From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai
Accomplished young kinswomen habitually passed two or three of the summer months there, as they would now at a fashionable watering-place.
From Thomas Jefferson by Henry Childs Merwin
