fosterage

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Conary would not condemn them to death, as the people begged him to do, but spared them for the sake of his kinship in fosterage.

From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

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

There still remains in the Hebrides, though it is passing fast away, the custom of fosterage.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 323, July 19, 1828 by Various

So he went before the King and said, "If thou art willing, Cormac, I would gladly have one of thy sons in fosterage."

From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Reid, Stephen

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

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin