fosterage
Example Sentences
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Sir Nigel Campbell, as all Highland chiefs did, sent his son to a farmer’s family for fosterage.
From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt
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
Connected apparently with the tribal sentiment were the strange customs of fosterage and gossipred.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith
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
A child in fosterage was reared and educated suitably for the position it was destined to fill in life.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
