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wetnurse

NOUN
  1. a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else

How To Use wetnurse In A Sentence

  • The wetnurse suckled the infant
  • But, in Avicenna's view, a wetnurse was necessary because the mother was too weak from her labor to provide milk. 125 The possibility of corruption at the outset of lactation paralleled the belief that external forces could effect negative changes in its quality. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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