Definition of "cousins-german" [cousins-german]

• Plural form of cousin-german. (noun)

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• "Two cousins-german, six more distant kinsmen, his factor and his chamberlain, were all hollow votes; and the"
• "Cardinal Mazarin, in order to please him, banished from France the two sons of Charles I., the two grandsons of Henry IV., and the two cousins-german of Louis XIV."
• "Fo, then, was the nephew of that emperor, and the grandson of the elephant and the monarch were cousins-german; therefore, according to the laws of the state, the race of the emperor being extinct, the descendants of the elephant become the rightful successors."