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Country cousin   Listen
noun
Country cousin  n.  A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.






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"Country cousin" Quotes from Famous Books



... obeys. She descends to breakfast in her gray travelling suit, looking pale, and not at all brilliant. Miss Stuart, who has had her doubts, that this country cousin may prove a rival, is reassured. She takes her breakfast, and then Beatrix conducts her over the house—a wonder of splendor, of velvet carpets, magnificent upholstering, lace drapings, gilding and ormolu. ...
— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming

... visit to Pomfret, the inspection of some of the finest mills, and of the pleasantest parts of the manufacturing city; and Marion bade this country cousin good-by, with the hearty hope that his visit had been a ...
— Miss Ashton's New Pupil - A School Girl's Story • Mrs. S. S. Robbins



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