fosterage
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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
I was always a dependent thing, wanting fosterage and support.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
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
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
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
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