A cousin couple is a pair of cousins who are involved in a romantic or sexual relationship.
Main articles: Cousin marriage and List of coupled cousinsFamous quotes containing the words cousin and/or couple:
“I against my brother
I and my brother against our cousin
I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors
All of us against the foreigner.”
—Bedouin Proverb. Quoted by Bruce Chatwin in From the Notebooks, ch. 30, The Songlines (1987)
“One is no number, mayds are nothing then,
Without the sweet societie of men.
Wilt thou live single still? one shalt thou bee,
Though never-singling Hymen couple thee.”
—Christopher Marlowe (15641593)
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