fosterage

Example Sentences

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

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

Indeed, I repent me of what was done by me to her, for that, in any case, she is my nurse and hath over me the right of fosterage.

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

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

A child in fosterage was reared and educated suitably for the position it was destined to fill in life.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

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