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Wet nurse   /wɛt nərs/   Listen
Wet nurse

noun
1.
A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.  Synonyms: amah, wet-nurse, wetnurse.






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"Wet nurse" Quotes from Famous Books



... Janie, and their crippled son live together in a two-room frame house with one fireplace. The old woman has been a wet nurse for many white families in Winnsboro. Neither Phillip nor his boy can work. The ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... or from disturbances of the stomach, or occasionally other parts of the body. When it occurs in nursing infants, nourishment is the best remedy, and he gives detailed directions for the selection of a wet nurse, and very careful directions as to her mode of life. He emphasizes very much the necessity for careful attention to the gastro-intestinal tract in many cases of epilepsy. Planned diet and regular bowels are ...
— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh

... majestic in a blue velvet dress which was too tight for her, and Caroline Hequet, clad as usual in ribbed black silk, trimmed with Chantilly lace. Lea de Horn came next, terribly dressed up, as her wont was, and after her the big Tatan Nene, a good-humored fair girl with the bosom of a wet nurse, at which people laughed, and finally little Maria Blond, a young damsel of fifteen, as thin and vicious as a street child, yet on the high road to success, owing to her recent first appearance at ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola



Words linked to "Wet nurse" :   nursemaid, nanny, nurse



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