fosterage
Example Sentences
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However, by the Celtic custom of fosterage the infant is intrusted to Sir Ector as his dalt, or foster-child, and Uther falls in battle.
From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
It is said that Mananan mac Lir had a daughter who was given in fosterage to the Danaan prince Angus, whose fairy palace was at Brugh na Boyna.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
She is my sister by fosterage and this is how it came about.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 Elbridge Streeter Brooks
The terms of fosterage seem to vary in different islands.
From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
