ayah

Example Sentences

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Saraswati Naskar, 40, another ayah who lives in a slum in Kolkata and works in a government hospital, said she had to pretend to her neighbours she now worked in a restaurant.

From The Guardian

For evening meals, the children usually ate earlier than their parents, with their ayah looking after them.

From The New Yorker

The vocabulary I brought to them had accreted organically, from books I read — “wizening” from D. H. Lawrence; “ayah” from Frances Hodgson Burnett; “crewelwork” from Jane Austen.

From New York Times

She said she had applied for a UN job and they would all live in The Hague with a Dutch ayah to look after them.

From Literature

Few professional families in Indian cities are prepared to live without a cook, cleaner and nanny or ‘ayah’ to look after the children.

From Salon