clientage

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

The library had a limited and dwindling clientage.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

But we have the greatest confidence that in time we shall thus be able to increase very greatly both the clientage and the usefulness of the university.

From Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions by Cooke, Josiah Parsons

Behind his modest screen he sat waiting for a clientage that never came, while through a hole he could see a steady crowd go pouring into the gilded doors across the way.

From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis

Bridges695 says that one Fuegian is thrown into clientage to another by their mode of life.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham