- Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. of distant relation, especially by marriage: some shirttail cousins I'd never met.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shirttail)
"Born in 1063 A.D., 8-Deer was a shirttail cousin to the ruling family of Tilantongo, which had been engaged for decades in a dynastic struggle with the kingdom of Red and White Bundle."
- Charles Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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