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  2. Niece and nephew - Wikipedia

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    In the lineal kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a niece or nephew is a child of an individual's sibling or sibling-in-law. A niece is female and a nephew is male, and they would call their parents' siblings aunt or uncle. The gender-neutral term nibling has been used in place of the common terms, especially in specialist ...

  3. List of Donald Duck universe characters - Wikipedia

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    The triplets act as Donald's nephews' (Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck) female counterparts, occasional rivals, occasional friends, and occasional dates. They are members of the organization The Junior Chickadees, who serve as The Junior Woodchucks' female counterparts. Unusually for children of their age, the girls routinely wear high-heeled shoes.

  4. Uncle - Wikipedia

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    The female counterpart of an uncle is an aunt, and the reciprocal relationship is that of a nephew or niece. The word comes from Latin : avunculus , the diminutive of avus (grandfather), and is a family relationship within an extended or immediate family.

  5. Women respond to viral TikTok prompt asking about ‘female ...

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    Women respond to viral TikTok prompt asking about ‘female version’ of male Roman Empire obsession. Brittany Miller. September 18, 2023 at 4:28 PM.

  6. Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The son of the current Duke of Northumberland has the courtesy title of Earl Percy, and is addressed and referred to as "Lord Percy".. If a peer of one of the top three ranks of the peerage (a duke, a marquess or an earl) has more than one title, his eldest son – himself not a peer – may use one of his father's lesser titles "by courtesy".

  7. Matrilineality - Wikipedia

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    Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritance of property and titles.

  8. Miss Marple - Wikipedia

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    She is not from the aristocracy or landed gentry, but is quite at home among them; as a gentlewoman, Miss Marple may thus be considered a female version of the gentleman detective, a staple of British detective fiction. She demonstrates a remarkably thorough education, including some art courses that involved the study of human anatomy using ...

  9. Gender in English - Wikipedia

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    "female member of a household" lærningmægden neut. "female pupil" mædencild neut. "female child" mægden neut. "young girl" English maid, maiden; German das Mädchen: mægdenman masc. (of a woman) "virgin" mægþman masc. (of a woman) "virgin" mennenu neut. "handmaiden" næmenwif neut. "married woman" sigewif neut. "victorious woman" siþwif ...