Noun : The board will undertake the fosterage of our new project.    From Dictionary.com. 

His son Brian had, in accordance with an old Irish custom, passed his boyhood in "fosterage" at the court of Callaghan, King of Cashel, in East Munster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times] Reference

She is my sister by fosterage and this is how it came about.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Including the careful choice of Cheynar as the point of fosterage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elvenbane]

Here's the gist: Samad is an orphan who has run away from an unhappy fosterage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

So Mardas thanked him and said, Thou hast well requited our fosterage-pains in rearing thee, O.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Sir Nigel Campbell, as all Highland chiefs did, sent his son to a farmer's family for fosterage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference

He is my overlord, and he has overwatched me in the fosterage where he placed me when my father died.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old] Reference

Owain Gwynedd was his overlord, and had overseen him in the fosterage where he had placed him when his father died.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old] Reference

They could be unfit without assistance, they may just need help with custody, guidance, fosterage, counseling, finances, or POA.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Adoption Over Parent’s Objection Requires Showing That Continued Parent-Child Relationship Would Be Detrimental to the Child ] Reference

A great industrial system has been built up in this country under the fosterage of the Government, behind a wall of unproductive taxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference

Even Alcuin, the brother of my fosterage, with his slender grace, his milk-white hair and gentle smile, had been hale next to this boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

When Mardas saw Gharib his reason fled, and he said to him, “O my son, I am under thy protection: so deliver me in right of my fosterage of thee!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

It might have been important to reckon a person's age for rites of passage, like a child being sent for fosterage or being formally accepted as an adult, for example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acha of Deira and Bernicia: daughter, sister, wife and mother of kings] Reference

Prior to the change, parental rights were left intact while children were in fosterage, and the state social workers assisted parents with the view of regaining custody.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Adoption Over Parent’s Objection Requires Showing That Continued Parent-Child Relationship Would Be Detrimental to the Child ] Reference

The scope of cooperation and assistance promised in the introductory section of this booklet includes the sounding out and potential fosterage of such unconventional approaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [8. Animal Power plus Local Handicrafts] Reference

The terms of fosterage seem to vary in different islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland] Reference

He was accused of making alliances and fosterage of the King's.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference

At a year they left their own thresholds, and their fosterage ended only at marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference

She takes him to his father, who gives him to his brother, Gavida the smith, in fosterage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Marriage and fosterage between the English and Irish are forbidden, and declared to be high treason.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Ireland] Reference

The plan of adoption in Polynesia is matched to a degree by the fosterage common in Ireland in early days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference

Celtic custom of fosterage the infant is intrusted to Sir Ector as his dalt, or foster-child, and Uther falls in battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Tennyson] Reference

Commander of the Faithful, he is no father of mine, save by right of fosterage; my father was none other than Ala al-Din Abu al.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

It tainted the blood of all who gave their children into fosterage with Irish women, and penalised the usage of Irish dress and customs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway] Reference

He felt that he was hardly of the one blood with them but stood to them rather in the mystical kinship of fosterage, fosterchild and fosterbrother.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference

'O Commander of the Faithful,' rejoined Aslan, 'he is no father of mine, save by right of fosterage; my father was none other than Alaeddin Abou esh Shamat.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference

Prior to the change, parental rights were left intact while children were in fosterage, and the state (social workers) assisted parents with the view of regaining custody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

The second volume contains the Law of Hostage Sureties, also a very important item in ancient Irish life, the law of fosterage, of tenure of stock, and of social connections.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

I would surely have lost the fosterage of Imri.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

Princess, "She is my sister by fosterage and this is how it came about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Alaeddin Abou esh Shamat, and the Amir Khalid is only my father by right of fosterage and adoption. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference

Of One who keeps them here in fosterage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legends of Saint Patrick] Reference