nursemaid
Example Sentences
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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 ● Oct. 17, 2025
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
P. L. Travers’s English nursemaid brings her spoonful of sugar and bottomless satchel to the Banks family’s London home in this Disney fantasy starring Julie Andrews.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2016
Doña Charito dipped her brush into a jar of water and made all manner of finicky, tidying up, tapping noises on the brim, like a nursemaid spooning mouthfuls for a difficult baby.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
