sisterly
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈsɪstəli/
sisterly
- Of or characteristic of sisters.
- 2011, Jane Martinson, The Guardian, 4 May 2011:
- Burton designed both Middleton sisters' dresses in white, so that when Pippa picked up Kate's train in the abbey, the two of them were united, visually, in a display of sisterly togetherness.
- 2011, Jane Martinson, The Guardian, 4 May 2011:
- German: schwesterlich, geschwisterlich
sisterly
- In the manner of a sister, behaving as one would expect of a sister; as a sister, as sisters.
- 1907, Jack London, The Iron Heel:
- "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"
- 1907, Jack London, The Iron Heel:
- German: schwesterlich, geschwisterlich
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