nursemaid

Example Sentences

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Cassiopeia had been kept busy as a nursemaid with a newborn baby, although she did not seem to mind.

From Literature

Agnes’ mother never bonded with her daughter and showed her little attention except to object to her daughter’s clear intelligence and closeness with her nursemaid.

From Los Angeles Times

They took her to the children’s emergency department down the road from their home in the Bay Area, where she was diagnosed with “nursemaid’s elbow” or, more technically, a “radial head subluxation.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

Frances left school to work as a seamstress and nursemaid for a white Baltimore family that owned a bookshop.

From New York Times