The kinship term, cousin – often familiarly abbreviated as coz or cuz – is very much broader in its Shakespearean use in than we find today […] we find it used for virtually any relative beyond the immediate family, both for blood relatives and relatives through marriage, and often as a term of affection between socially equal people who are not relatives at all, such as monarchs of different countries.

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