clientage

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Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientage.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

For a young man he had already a considerable clientage.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert

I had a large clientage among the farmers.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie

The instructors were Minim priests, and the life was as severe as it could be made with such a clientage under half-educated and inexperienced monks.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan

He had been quite unable to devote his customary labor to the benefit of his law partnership and the good of their clientage during the two years that he was Mayor of Boston.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 by Various