Brewer's: Foster

Brother or Sister. One brought up by the same nurse.

A foster-child is one brought up by those who are not its real parents. (Saxon, fostrian, Danish fostrer, to nurse.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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