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foster daughter

noun

  1. a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.


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"My new little foster-daughter," said Mrs. Harold, kissing the velvety cheeks.

The foster-daughter cried and pleaded even more touchingly than before; but all to no avail.

Mr. Stevens gazed searchingly at the young girl so like his foster daughter.

I learned that she was Bertalda, foster-daughter of a great duke, and each evening I became her partner in the dances.

As the Amphib-King's foster-daughter, she could get the boat through to the Amphib island without any trouble at all.

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