A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
1We were alone in the house, except for the amah and Angus.
2Their voices and the answers of the serving amah filled the kitchen with noise.
3The amah is yours to hire-orfire if you wish.
4It was all worth it for moments like this with my family, my sister, my amah.
5The amah's voice laughed with an equal gaiety.
6The amah broke into the first broad smile that had appeared on her face in London.
7The amah shouldered the steaming buckets and splashed across the bare boards of the ancestral hall beyond.
8An amah brought him rice and tea.
9The amah suffered from homesickness and her employer thought up little things to keep her interested and happy.
10An amah called, "The morning rice is ready."
11At ninety-four, my maternal amah had lived to see five of her children bring thirty-one grandchildren into the world.
12There are a special group of strong-armed women, called amah sans-a term of Japanese origin meaning "sea girls."
13She was about to enter when her amah came from the back of the house where the servants quarters were.
14There was the amah in the car and she took Angus and carried him against her as soft as any mother.
15The amah had gone home or had been given notice, and the house was full of suitcases half packed, or packed and opened again.
16But Amah was a greedy woman when it came to her family.