Definition of "nurserymaid" [nurserymaid]

• Nursemaid (noun)

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• "Only when Cornelia Scipionis returned were the children seen, banished under the escort of a weeping and shivering nurserymaid; the mother knelt again opposite Marius, as helpless as he."
• ""I will," said Servilia hardily, and off she marched, her nurserymaid hurrying after her."
• "That functionary was a good-hearted, tearful, scatter-brained girl, lately taken by Tom's mother, Madam Brown, as she was called, from the village school to be trained as nurserymaid."