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Foster mother   /fˈɑstər mˈəðər/   Listen
Foster mother

noun
1.
A woman who is a foster parent and raises another's child.  Synonym: foster-mother.





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... created major-domo. Finally, Marie of Valois on her deathbed commended the two young princesses to her care, begging her to look on them as her own-daughters. Thus Philippa the Catanese, honoured in future as foster mother of the heiress to the throne of Naples, had power to nominate her husband grand seneschal, one of the seven most important offices in the kingdom, and to obtain knighthood for her sons. Raymond of Cabane was buried like a king ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - JOAN OF NAPLES—1343-1382 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE


Words linked to "Foster mother" :   foster parent, foster-parent


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