nutrice

Definitions of nutrice
  1. noun
    a woman who is the custodian of children
    synonyms: baby sitter, baby-sitter, balia, bambinaia, bonne, nurse, puericultore
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    types:
    balia
    a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
    type of:
    donna
    an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
  2. noun
    a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
    synonyms: balia
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    type of:
    baby sitter, baby-sitter, balia, bambinaia, bonne, nurse, puericultore
    a woman who is the custodian of children
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