Nursemaid
['nɜːsmeɪd] or ['nɝs'med]
Definition
(n.) A girl employed to attend children.
Edited by Fred
Examples
- An elderly nursemaid and two children were standing in a corner of the enclosure, looking at a lean goat tethered to the grass. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And I assure you it wrenched the imagination to see tidy nursemaids wheeling perambulators and children playing diavolo on the very square where Bloody Sunday had gone into history. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Eva