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Cater-cousin

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An intimate friend; a remote kinsman. (French, quatre-cousin, a fourth cousin).

“His master and he, saving your worship’s reverence, are scarce cater-cousins.”—Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, ii. 2.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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