Definition of "blood feud" []

• A feud involving the members of a family or clan. (noun)

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• "In Pashtu the words for “cousin” and “enemy” are roughly the same, which is indicative of the endemic low-level warfare that is the way of life in the FATA, where all males are armed and the blood feud is a multigenerational pursuit that the tribesmen seem to genuinely enjoy."
• "There was blood feud between Bael's Goshien and Jheran's Shaarad, suppressed for He Who Comes With the Dawn but not forgotten."
• "Slender as a blade is slender, his light brown hair heavily streaked with gray, he was always calm now that the Shaarad's four-hundred-year blood feud with the Goshien Aiel had ended with Rand's coming."