[f. CLIENTELE or L. clientēla + -AGE.] 1. = CLIENTAGE 2.
1832. trans. Sismondi’s Ital. Rep., viii. 187. With the same enthusiasm and spirit of clientelage.
2. A body of retainers or followers.
1879. Tourgee, Fool’s Err., xxi. 124. Every family there has its clientelage … who rally to its lead as quickly … as the old Scottish clansmen.
1884. J. G. Bourke, Snake-Dance of Moquis, xiv. 155. [These] form his admiring clientelage.
