Scotch sister

English

Noun

Scotch sister (plural Scotch sisters)

  1. (obsolete) A distant relation; possibly a cousin.
    • 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 19, in Wives and Daughters, London: Smith, Elder & Co.:
      [S]he had heard of the probability of her having a sister—(she called her a sister, but whether it was a Scotch sister, or a sister à la mode de Brétagne, would have puzzled most people)[.]

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