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co-sister-in-law

noun

Etymology

From co- + sister-in-law or co-sister + -in-law.

  1. inherited from suster-in-lawe
  2. prefixed as co-sister-in-law — “co + sister-in-law”

Definitions

  1. One's spouse's sister-in-law, especially one's husband's brother's wife, one's brother's…

    One's spouse's sister-in-law, especially one's husband's brother's wife, one's brother's wife in relation to the spouses of his siblings; either of two (or more) women who are married to brothers, in relation to the other.

    • [The Russian word] Yátrov', for the husband's brother's wife or co-sister-in-law, so diagnostic a status within the patrilocal household, has passed entirely out of the language.
    • At first the wench's second co-sister-in-law and the middle sister-in-law got into it.

  2. One's brother-in-law or sister-in-law's sister

    One's brother-in-law or sister-in-law's sister; one's sibling's spouse's sister; either of two (or more) women whose siblings are married, in relation to the other.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA