Meaning

A type of soup containing chard and sorrel..

Definitions by Sense

1. A type of soup containing chard and sorrel.
2. (informal) A young female cousin.

Example Sentences

Another soup is cousinette, a vegetable broth made with beet greens, spinach, lettuce, sorrel, and cousine (a wild member of the mallow family). Sometimes cousinette is thickened with cornmeal, in which case it is called jerbilhou.

But his wants are really few; his tastes were naturally simple; he had been becoming blase/ on everything, when he found his occupation as an artist gone; and he is consoled besides by the love of the cousinette, who has proved that her giddiness was only skin-deep by giving him a marvellous proof of disinterestedness.

Pa made much of me—ma made much of me ; so did her brothers and sisters, and uncles and aunts, and cousins and cousinettes, and cousiniculings.

So she remained with the cousinettes while the cousins took a walk.

And uncles and aunts have I none; grandfathers and grandmothers have I none; cousins and — cousinettes have I none!

Victor, his cousinettes and I spent a quiet night roaming Sai Gon.

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• cousinettes

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When Should You Use Cousinette?

Use cousinette when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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