milk sister

See also: milk-sister

English

Alternative forms

• milk-sister

Noun

milk sister (plural milk sisters)

1. A female milk sibling.
   • 2007, Jenny Erpenbeck, The Book of Words (trans. Susan Bernofsky), New Directions (2007; original German novel published 2004), →ISBN, page 46:

     In this shop, I always used to play hide-and-seek with Marie, my wet nurse's daughter, who in fact is my milk sister, […]

Quotations

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Translations

female milk sibling

• French: sœur de lait (fr)
• German: Milchschwester f
• Kashmiri: دۄدٕ بیٚنہِ f (dọdụ beni)
• Latin: collactia, conlacticia, collactea, collacticia, conlactia, collactanea, conlactea
• Romanian: soră de lapte (ro) f