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nursemaid

[nurs-meyd] / ˈnɜrsˌmeɪd /


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Dr Buck Ruxton had given various explanations for the disappearance of his wife Isabella and their nursemaid Mary Rogerson.

From BBC Nov. 18, 2024

She’d been working since she was 11 years old, first as a nursemaid during summer breaks, then as a cook for wealthier families.

From Scientific American Oct. 26, 2023

In the 1830s, in a young nation eager to connect to the past, Barnum toured with Joice Heth, an enslaved woman who claimed to be 161 years old and the former nursemaid to George Washington.

From Washington Post Oct. 18, 2019

A posthumous Irish child, abandoned by his mother to a nursemaid, he was also an exasperated, petulant and insubordinate genius, an Anglican clergyman with an incurable sense of humiliation and gloom. 

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2017

“We’ve gone from training and assisting the saviors of humankind to playing nursemaid? No thank you.”

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi




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