fosterage

Example Sentences

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His son Brian had, in accordance with an old Irish custom, passed his boyhood in "fosterage" at the court of Callaghan, King of Cashel, in East Munster.

From Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Brooks, Elbridge Streeter

So he went before the King and said, "If thou art willing, Cormac, I would gladly have one of thy sons in fosterage."

From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Reid, Stephen

Connected apparently with the tribal sentiment were the strange customs of fosterage and gossipred.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

She is my sister by fosterage and this is how it came about.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The Celtic custom of fosterage is overlooked, and Merlin gives the child to Anton, not as the customary dalt, but to preserve the babe from danger.

From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew