nurserymaid

Example Sentences

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Then I remembered that the dead nurserymaid was French.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

I won’t be a nurserymaid, nor a lady’s-maid, far less a lady’s companion, or a mantua-maker, or a straw-bonnet maker, or a taker-in of plain work. 

From Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

It was somewhat comical to watch him eyeing a stout young nurserymaid, who had brought a plump baby with her.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 12, 1890 by Various

If you are a nurserymaid, attend to your duties; and do not presume to ape your elders.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard

One of the laundresses let me have her daughter for nurserymaid, and our small establishment at Camp MacDowell moved on smoothly, if not with elegance.

From Vanished Arizona by Summerhayes, Martha