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Dry nurse   /draɪ nərs/   Listen
Dry nurse

noun
1.
A nurse who cares for but does not suckle an infant.





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"Dry nurse" Quotes from Famous Books



... no small joy but an extraordinary Pleasure, both for the new Father, and Child-bed woman. Oh now their hearts are at rest. And now all things will go well; for as the Wet-Nurse takes care of the Child; the dry Nurse doth of the Mother, & all this pleases the good Father ...
— The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) • A. Marsh


Words linked to "Dry nurse" :   nanny, nurse, nursemaid


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