Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who nourishes or rears; a nurse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a female
fosterer
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Examples
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We fly past the cliffs of Ithaca, Laërtes 'realm, and curse the land, fostress of cruel Ulysses.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Earth, the mother and fostress, receives our sympathy and gives us her own.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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Woven about the fragrant forehead of the fostress maiden's town.
Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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Night, holy and starry, the fostress of souls, with the fragrance of heaven in her breath,
Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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With England Eton her child kept pace as a fostress of men to be.
Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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