nursemaid

Example Sentences

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Dr Buck Ruxton had given various explanations for the disappearance of his wife Isabella and their nursemaid Mary Rogerson.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2024

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

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

The artist was discovered at the bottom of the yard drawing the nursemaid Milagros's boy with a brown and a gold and a purple crayon.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez