clientage

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

I did succeed, in a way, from the beginning, and was not without a good clientage, and some good employments.

From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Keifer, Joseph Warren

In South America we also meet with at least one case of a tribe, or part of a tribe, which is in clientage to another tribe.

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

It would be absurd for him now to furbish up the rusty weapons of the law and enter again upon the tedious labor of collecting a clientage.

From John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

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