foster daughter

noun

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

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

Marjorie Dean Pauline Lester
He went, after the council had broken up, to find his dear foster daughter.

Voltaire's Romances Franois-Marie Arouet
The girl you saw to-night is my foster daughter, the child of my wife and the man for whose whim she begged me to divorce her.

Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple

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