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n. - A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.

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Usage examples (10)
  • Verb (used with object), : The warden is accused of wet-nursing his prisoners
  • Her mother dies in childbirth so Bella is sent away to a wetnurse and virtually forgotten by her arrogant father.
  • So it was that Isabel nicknamed Bella was taken from her father's home and tended to by a peasant wetnurse by the name of Beatrice who had lately tended to the prince...
  • Prince Julian, the third son in his family, often comes back to visit this wetnurse of his, and over the years it becomes clear that the person he seeks most often on...
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