milk-brother

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milk-brother (plural milk-brothers)

  1. Alternative spelling of milk brother
    • 2006, Delia Cortese, Simonetta Calderini, Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 82:
      Also, as milk-brother of the future ruler, the son of a wetnurse would be well placed to bask one day in his milk-brother's power.

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