Alternate Use
This term is sometimes used to refer to in-laws more indirectly related than the usual case of a spouse's sibling or sibling's spouse, for example one's sibling's spouse's sibling or one's spouse's sibling's spouse. This usage is most common in the US Midwest; elsewhere terms such as sister-in-law cover indirect as well as direct in-laws.
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Famous quotes containing the word alternate:
“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
—Henry James (1843–1816)
“It might become a wheel spoked red and white
In alternate stripes converging at a point
Of flame on the line, with a second wheel below,
Just rising, accompanying, arranged to cross,
Through weltering illuminations, humps
Of billows, downward, toward the drift-fire shore.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)