Definition of "amahs" []

• Plural form of amah. (noun)

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• "Hong Kong's unemployed investment bankers won't be taking the "amahs" who care for their children back to London."
• "MacArthur meanwhile landed safely in Melbourne, taking with him on the PT-41 “his wife, his child, two Chinese amahs, and several trunks of personal belongings.”"
• "No one else could see the point of the two incompetent old peasant women taken on by Pearl as amahs because they had nowhere else to go."