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Definition of Fostress
1. n. A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.
Definition of Fostress
1. Noun. a female fosterer ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fostress
1. a female fosterer [n -ES] - See also: fosterer
Medical Definition of Fostress
1. A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse. Origin: For fosteress. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fostress
Literary usage of Fostress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"... daughter of heaven, but a "forlorn divinity," the "pale Omega of a wither'd
race," though, also, as the fostress of Apollo, the "Alpha" of a new. ..."
2. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"Great Athens, The nurse and fostress of my infancy, I have instructed in the
seaman's craft, And taught them truly how to sail by stars. ..."
3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1851)
"Great Athens, The nurse and fostress of my infancy, I have instructed in the
seaman's craft, And taught them truly how to sail by stars. ..."
4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... mammy (a child's name of affection; often spec, in southern US); spec.
fosterer (rare), foster (archaic), fostress (fern.), rocker (archaic), dry nurse, ..."
5. Poet Lore (1901)
"... this noon a leaf, And jewels her sparse greenery with a bud: fostress of happy
growth is she. But thou, O too disdainful spirit, or too shy! ..."
6. An Introduction to the History of the Science of Politics by Frederick Pollock (1920)
"... Fair fortress and fostress of sons born free, Who stand in her sight and in
thine, 0 sun, Slaves of no man, subjects of none ; A wonder enthroned on the ..."
7. The Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne by Edmund Gosse (1917)
"... the ideal commonwealth — The fruitful, immortal, anointed, adored Dear city
of men without master or lord, Fair fortress and fostress of sons born free. ..."
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