Definition of nursemaid
: a girl or woman who is regularly employed to look after children
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Examples of nursemaid in a Sentence
sent the children to their nursemaid
Recent Examples of nursemaid from the Web
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With the assistance of nursemaid/housekeeper Mrs. Blott, Maisie is raised by her father, Peter, a distracted academic who treats his daughter more like an experiment than as a child.
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Here are nursemaids and newsboys; elegant sisters in their Sunday best; gentlemen out for a stroll in striped vests.
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Three people attended Toole's funeral at St. Peter and Paul Church: his mother, his father and Beulah Mathews, his childhood nursemaid.
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There was some luxury casting of smaller roles: the potent bass Matthew Rose as Norma’s father and the tribal chief Oroveso, and the opulent soprano Michelle Bradley as Clotilde, nursemaid to Norma’s children.
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Pushkin began jotting down his old nursemaid’s stories in the 1820s while in internal exile at the family estate.
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The first was Joice Heth, a blind slave who was supposedly the 161-year-old nursemaid of George Washington.
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First Known Use of nursemaid
1657
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Definition of nursemaid for English Language Learners
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: a girl or woman whose job is to take care of children
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