clientage

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

He had a large clientage, especially among that class of Irish Americans who were apt in Massachusetts to vote with the Democratic Party.

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

Their united clientage included the investors of Great Britain and the Continent, and a popular loan could not be effected without their aid and co-operation.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie

Vaudrey caused these urgent people, as well as some others, to be received by Warcolier, who asked nothing better than to make tools, to sow the seed of his clientage.

From His Excellency the Minister by Roberts, Henri

I think that it might find a kindly welcome, but—I fear the verdict of the public, especially the clientage upon whose favor its fate most depends—the young people.

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher