nursemaid

Example Sentences

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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

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

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023

Gravity, an impatient professor and a sassy nursemaid hinder movers trying to deliver a player piano to an upstairs address.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2020

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

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

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood