Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A foster-mother.
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Examples
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Pliny (an ancient Latin writer) gives it this character: "Italy is the nurse-mother of all nations, elected by the Gods to make the Heavens more glorious, and unite the dispersed governments of the world."
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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Whether the child infected the nurse-mother or the mother the child was not certain, but the last most likely.
A Journal Of The Plague Year Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1935
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It was his first venture into the world with the loss of his member, and the nurse-mother could not find it in her heart to tell the boy that not a word which he spoke was understandable.
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But one day he sold the bag which he had first made to a visitor, and with his face radiant with glee he sought the nurse-mother to tell her all about his good fortune.
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Whether the child infected the nurse-mother or the mother the child was not certain, but the last most likely.
A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London Daniel Defoe 1696
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