Significados de fosterage em inglês

The terms of fosterage seem to vary in different islands.

At a year they left their own thresholds, and their fosterage ended only at marriage.

There still remains in the Islands, though it is passing fast away, the custom of fosterage.

The plan of adoption in Polynesia is matched to a degree by the fosterage common in Ireland in early days.

A great industrial system has been built up in this country under the fosterage of the Government, behind a wall of unproductive taxes.

So he went before the King and said, "If thou art willing, Cormac, I would gladly have one of thy sons in fosterage."

Fosterage is, I believe, sometimes performed upon more liberal terms.

"The bonds from fosterage are ofttimes stronger than blood ties."