fosterage
Example Sentences
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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
There was fosterage for affection, for payment and for a literary education.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
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
Connected apparently with the tribal sentiment were the strange customs of fosterage and gossipred.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith
O my son, for the sake of my fosterage of thee and my service to thee, spare this young lady, for indeed she has done nothing deserving of death.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
