bringing up

"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.

But Mrs. Lacey detects a secret sarcasm in the phrase about the bringing-up.

This was altogether too intimate an inquiry, and the dowager, failing to bury her blushes in the opulent group of butter-colored flowers that she was bending over to admire, took refuge in her bringing-up.

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

Henry had never been blind to Elsa's failings, but had always ascribed them to her bringing-up, and believed that, in a more genial atmosphere, they would vanish; that, when treated with love, the girl would grow loving.