fosterage
Example Sentences
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Irish Memories shows incidentally how great a part this fosterage played in the Ross of yesterday—that family with its multitude of children was bound to the countryside by all the "Nursies."
From Irish Books and Irish People by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
Rejoined Aslan, "O Commander of the Faithful, he is no father of mine, save by right of fosterage; my father was none other than Ala al-Din Abu al Shamat."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The terms of fosterage seem to vary in different islands.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 323, July 19, 1828 by Various
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 Andrew Lang
