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Dry nurse   /draɪ nərs/   Listen
noun
Dry nurse  n.  A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dry nurse" Quotes from Famous Books



... no small joy but an extraordinary Pleasure, both for the new Father, and Child-bed woman. Oh now their hearts are at rest. And now all things will go well; for as the Wet-Nurse takes care of the Child; the dry Nurse doth of the Mother, & all this pleases the good Father ...
— The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) • A. Marsh



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