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Meanings of wet-nurse in English

Portuguese
ama-de-leite
Catalan
nodrissa
Spanish
aya

A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.

        ama-de-leite
        Portuguese
        alimentar um bebê com o leite produzido pelas próprias glândulas mamárias
        Catalan
        alletar
        Spanish
        dar de mamar

        Give suck to.

          alimentar um bebê com o leite produzido pelas próprias glândulas mamárias
          Usage of wet-nurse in English
          1
          The whole household were immediately sent in quest of a wet-nurse.
          Rattlin the Reefer
          2
          In one corner is an outline of a wet-nurse, and the baby Tutankhaten.
          News.com.au
          3
          She 'as never failed yet to suit 'erself in a situation as wet-nurse.
          Esther Waters
          4
          Of course, the reader recognises in her the wet-nurse who had exchanged her child.
          Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
          5
          The first child had a healthy wet-nurse, and has grown a fine healthy lad.
          The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease
          6
          She wished they were larger though, and dreamed of having breasts like a wet-nurse.
          L'Assommoir
          7
          I didn't engage to wet-nurse its infants with bank accounts.
          A Son of the Sun
          8
          Is it my fault that she acts like a wet-nurse?
          Maurice Guest
          9
          In due time I bring him back to Ste.-Genevieve's for an appointment with a wet-nurse.
          The confusion
          10
          My mother was wet-nurse to the Adamses and they thought the world and all of her.
          Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
          11
          A second wet-nurse was sought for and found.
          The Blue Pavilions
          12
          Or do you think you are my wet-nurse?
          Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
          13
          Shelley needed excuses for his altered attitude toward his wife; Providence pitied him and sent the wet-nurse.
          In Defence of Harriet Shelley
          14
          Shelley needed excuses for his altered attitude towards his wife; Providence pitied him and sent the wet-nurse.
          The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
          15
          The situation of wet-nurse is just what you wants at the time, and it is good money.
          Esther Waters
          16
          To-morrow morning you shall have the wet-nurse.
          Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé — Volume 03
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