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governess

noun as in tutor

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During World War Two, her mother and elderly governess were frequently her only companions.

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The bathroom belonged to a live-in governess, Mr Virag said, who he was holding a meeting with in a basement room of the five storey property when the theft occurred.

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Margot, whose name we have changed, was 19 when she responded to a job advertisement in The Lady magazine in 1985, for a position as a nanny and governess in Surrey.

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In The Governess, he played a father with an interest in photography who falls for his muse, and governess, played by Minnie Driver.

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No one would have to become a governess.

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