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milk-brother
milk-brother
See also: milk brother
English
Noun
milk-brother (plural milk-brothers)
- Alternative spelling of milk brother
- 2006, Delia Cortese & Simonetta Calderini, Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam, Edinburgh University Press (2006), ISBN 0748617329, 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.
- 2006, Delia Cortese & Simonetta Calderini, Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam, Edinburgh University Press (2006), ISBN 0748617329, page 82:
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