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fosterling [faw-ster-ling, fos-ter-] ExamplesWord Origin noun
Origin of fosterling before 1000; Middle English; Old English fōstorling. See foster, -ling1 Examples from the Web for fosterling Historical Examples of fosterling
Lie you down and sleep, my fosterling, for I have much to do in the hours of darkness.
H. Rider Haggard
“I shall never master that hard art,” lamented his fosterling.
James Stephens
Nevertheless, when her fosterling fed her kindly from her abundance they naysaid it not.
William Morris
The monster is the fosterling of Hera in the Homeric hymn, and the bane of flocks and herds.
Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Andrew Lang
Ye whose hands are clean of the blood of Horwendil, pity your fosterling, be moved by my calamities.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
Saxo Grammaticus (“Saxo the Learned”)
British Dictionary definitions for fosterling fosterling noun
- a less common word for foster child