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Wet nurse - Wikipedia
A wet nurse is a woman who breastfeeds and cares for another's child. [1] Wet nurses are employed if the mother dies, if she is unable to nurse the child ...
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WET-NURSE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. to care for and breastfeed (another woman's baby) : to act as wet nurse to 2. to give constant and often excessive care to wet nurse.
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The Lifesaving, Horrifying History of Wet Nurses - JSTOR Daily
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Wolf writes, wet nurses were more often hired by well-to-do families than by institutions.
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wet-nurse, v. trans. To serve as wet nurse to, suckle (another woman's infant). Also transf.1784 Morn. Chron. 13 Apr. 4/4 Advt., Wanted, a Child to Wet Nurse, by a Young Woman, with a good breast of milk. 1786 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscr. III. 62 At the house of the woman who had wet-nursed him. ...
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WET NURSE Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
verb (used with object) ... to give excessive care or attention to; treat as if helpless. The warden is accused of wet-nursing his prisoners.
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The controversial history of wet nursing and what the 'informal ...
The profession of wet nursing is less common today thanks to modern alternatives like formula and breast milk banks, the informal practice of wet nursing, some ...
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Midrashic commentaries on the Torah hold that the Egyptian princess Bithiah (Pharaoh's wife Asiya in the Islamic Hadith and Qur'an) attempted to wet-nurse
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The History and Definition of Wet Nurse - ThoughtCo
A wet nurse is a lactating woman who breastfeeds a child who is not her own. Once a highly organized and well-paid profession, wet nurses all but disappeared ...
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WET NURSE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
WET NURSE meaning: 1. in the past, a woman employed to give her breast milk to another woman's baby 2. to treat…. Learn more.
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From royal wet nurses to Facebook: The evolution of breastmilk ...
Wet-nursing, the practice of a woman feeding a child at the breast who is not biologically her child, was a practical way to provide nutrition for infants and ...
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Wet Nurse Definition, History & Practices | Study.com
A wet nurse is a lactating person who chooses to supply human milk for children who were not birthed by them.
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wet-nursen (esp formerly) woman employed to breast-feed another woman's baby (尤指旧时的)乳母, 奶妈.
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wet nurse
wet nurse, wet-nurse, n. A woman who is hired to suckle and nurse another woman's child. Cf. dry-nurse.1620 Middleton Chaste Maid ii. ii, I call the Wet Nurse hither. a 1633 Austin Medit. (1635) 45 Shee was both wet-Nurse, and dry-Nurse herselfe. And yet this his handmaid was his Mother. 1689 Full A...
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Li Mingqi
Li Mingqi (; born 20 February 1936) is a Chinese actress best known for her roles as Granny Wang on The Water Margin (1996), Wet-Nurse Rong on My Fair Li became widely known to audiences with My Fair Princess (1997), in which she played Wet-Nurse Rong.
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Debrett, n. (dɪˈbrɛt) A colloquial designation of ‘Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland’, the first edition of which, issued in 1803, was compiled by John Debrett (c 1750–1822). Also transf.1848, etc. [see Burke n.]. 1849 Thackeray Pendennis I. ix. 85 You cannot begin your genealogical...
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