sistership

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings
noun an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest

From sister + -ship.

You who will mete out no other approval than that vouched for by the stamp of time and whose contempt for the contemporary is from behind the easy refuge of the classics, suffer you the shuddering analogy that between Aspasia who inspired Pericles, Theodora who suggested the Justinian code, and Gertie Slayback who commandeered Jimmie Batch, is a sistership which rounds them, like a lasso thrown back into time, into one and the same petticoat dynasty behind the throne. — Americans All: Stories of American Life of To-Day, Unknown

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