nursemaid

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nurse·maid | \ ˈnərs-ˌmād

Definition of nursemaid

: a girl or woman who is regularly employed to look after children

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sent the children to their nursemaid

Recent Examples on the Web According to Encyclopedia Britannica, she was forced to work from a young age, alternatively acting as a nursemaid, a field hand, a cook and a woodcutter. — Isis Davis-marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021 Smith and her husband deducted the cost of their nursemaid from their federal income taxes in 1937. — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2021 Many moms are on their own, but a fortunate few get help from babysitters or nursemaids. — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 8 May 2020 Torn's cagey Arthur often had to become a multi-hyphenate nursemaid-therapist-taskmaster to the talented, but hugely insecure host Larry Sanders (Garry Shandling), who called him Artie. — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 10 July 2019 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. — Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018 Here are nursemaids and newsboys; elegant sisters in their Sunday best; gentlemen out for a stroll in striped vests. — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2018 Three people attended Toole's funeral at St. Peter and Paul Church: his mother, his father and Beulah Mathews, his childhood nursemaid. — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 14 Feb. 2018 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. — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017

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