clientage

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Bridges695 says that one Fuegian is thrown into clientage to another by their mode of life.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

Characteristic of the times was the new form of clientage which was a voluntary association of master and paid retainer.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

Why, your clientage as a fashionable physician, O sublime Jenkins, is made up of nothing else.

From The Nabob, Volume 1 by Ives, George Burnham

Besides he had hopes that his clientage would continue to grow so that he would be able to provide all reasonable comforts for his new home.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert