bringing up

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"Back then, we really did have to research what to eat. "We started looking at Eastern and Indian food and were really expanding our cultural horizons from our bringing-up in the North East.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2017

Virginian by birth she is Middle-Western by adoption and bringing-up.

From Time Magazine Archive

After thirteen years of the most careful bringing-up there is complete and absolute failure.

From A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)

He 'lowed you'd had the same Christian chance in your bringing-up, and a better education than most gals, and had deliberately throwed it all up and gone your headstrong way.

From Ann Boyd by Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)

You are ignorant of her character, and her bringing-up.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie