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Definition of "nursemaids" []

  • Plural form of nursemaid. (noun)
  • Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nursemaid. (verb)

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Use "nursemaids" in a sentence
  • "The children were wet-nursed, looked after by nursemaids and governesses, then sent away to boarding school."
  • "Beyond, under the palms at the edge of the sea, two Chinese nursemaids, in their pretty native costume of white yee-shon and-straight-lined trousers, their black braids of hair down their backs, attended each on a baby in a perambulator."
  • "We are not goddesses, divas or supermoms any more than we're bitches, shrews, sluts or nursemaids, and the damage of getting it wrong has been accumulative, making the picture of a woman's role seem quite grim and hopeless when it's really far from it."