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

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

A posthumous Irish child, abandoned by his mother to a nursemaid, he was also an exasperated, petulant and insubordinate genius, an Anglican clergyman with an incurable sense of humiliation and gloom. 

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2017

Congenitally unable to assume the role of nursemaid administering consolation, Mr. Koch barreled through with a customary orneriness that left him offending one important constituency after another.

From New York Times • May 22, 2015

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