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  1. noun An intricate dance for many couples.
  2. noun A party for dancing at which this dance is featured.
  3. adjective Having the same parents or the same grandparents on either the mother's or the father's side. Often used in combination: a cousin-german; a brother-german.

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  • She and the sergeant's wife prepared the supper for the german, and everything was sent to the hall in a most satisfactory way ;much to my delight. —  Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
  • A cousin-german, Jose Florentino, was a Philippine deputy in the Spanish Cortes, and a lawyer of note, as was also his brother, Manuel. —  Lineage, Life and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot
  • I'm really curious Posts: 401 | Registered: Jan 2001 IP: Logged nbk2000 end if Professor Emeritus Member # 10 posted September 11, 2002 08:40 AM Perhaps someone who knows german *COUGH*mach*COUGH could read this file and give us a breakdown of the info contained therein The knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them. —  The Explosives and Weapons Forum: medina?
  • What would the ladder of education have led to, except a platform on which a posturing professor proved that a cousin german was the same as a German cousin? —  A Short History of England
  • He was to lead the german, and might have to lead it with Mrs. Courtenay of the bank, who was the leader of local society but couldn't dance any more than he could fly, and if Mrs. Davies would only promise to be there all would be bliss. —  Under Fire
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desavouieren · faszinierlich · ausgang · schwindelig · am arsch der welt · kaffeeklatsch · terminverwalter · vogel · welt · bedauerlicherweise · fissur

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  1. Short for German cotillion.
  2. Middle English germain, from Old French, from Latin germānus, from germen, offshoot; see genə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. The same as germane (q. v.), formerly germain, from Middle English germayn, german, jermayn, from Old French germain = Provencal german, girman = Old Spanish germano, Spanish hermano, akin (as noun, a brother, hermana, a sister), = Portuguese Italian germano, from Latin germanus, near akin (of brothers and sisters who have the same parents, or at least the same father); from the same root as germen, a germ: see germ. As applied to terms of kindred, this adjective follows its noun, according to the F. idiom.
 

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