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ayah

[ah-yuh] / ˈɑ jə /


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“We offered to send him to the best schools,” his mother tells the ayah, nodding toward Amer.

From The New Yorker Dec. 31, 2018

She grabs a cup from the table and shakes it at the ayah.

From The New Yorker Dec. 31, 2018

The ayah wheels her to the doors that open onto the balcony and over the threshold.

From The New Yorker Dec. 31, 2018

She fishes a dirty hundred-rupee note out of a pocket of her handbag and gives it triumphantly to the ayah.

From The New Yorker Dec. 31, 2018

She said she had applied for a UN job and they would all live in The Hague with a Dutch ayah to look after them.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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