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:
“Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)