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What (who) is wet nurse - definition

WOMAN EMPLOYED TO BREASTFEED AND CARE FOR ANOTHER'S CHILD
Wet-nurse; Wetnurse; Milk nurse; Wet nursing; Wetnursing; Nutrix; Wet-nursed; Milk mother; Wet nurses
  • A funerary [[stele]] (akin to a gravestone) erected by Roman citizen Lucius Nutrius Gallus in the 2nd half of the 1st century AD for himself, his wet nurse, and other members of his family and household
  • A Russian wet nurse, c. 1913
  • An infant who has been living with a wet nurse being taken away from its foster parents by its natural mother. By [[Étienne Aubry]]
  • Richard Bertie]], are forced into exile, taking their baby and wet nurse
  • Louis XIV]] as an infant with his nurse Longuet de la Giraudière
  • The bureau of wet nurses in Paris
  • "Visite Chez la Nourrice" ("Visit to the Wet nurse") by [[Victor Adam]]
  • A 16th-century carving in a Belgian church, showing a woman expressing her milk into a bowl.
  • Enslaved Black woman wet-nursing white infant

wet nurse         
¦ noun chiefly historical a woman employed to suckle another woman's child.
¦ verb (wet-nurse) act as a wet nurse to.
?informal look after (someone) as though they were a helpless infant.
Wet nurse         
·- A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. ·cf. Dry nurse.
wet nurse         
also wet-nurse (wet nurses)
In former times, a wet nurse was a woman who was paid to breast-feed another woman's baby.
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Wet nurse

A wet nurse is a woman who breastfeeds and cares for another's child. Wet nurses are employed if the mother dies, or if she is unable or chooses not to nurse the child herself. Wet-nursed children may be known as "milk-siblings", and in some cultures, the families are linked by a special relationship of milk kinship. Wet-nursing existed in cultures around the world until the invention of reliable formula milk in the 20th century. The practice has made a small comeback in the 21st century.

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Examples of use of wet nurse
1. They were saying that every woman in the tribe was the Prophet’s aunt or wet nurse.
2. We have a detailed story of how the young Muhammad ended up with Haleemah, his Bedouin wet nurse.
3. He stayed most of the first four or five years of his life with his wet nurse, Haleemah, in a desert encampment.
4. She responded to an advertisement offering five times her salary, or about 4,000 yuan ($500) a month, to work as a wet nurse for a Wenzhou family.
5. That was Halimah, the Prophet’s wet nurse who breast–fed him and took care of him for the first four years of his life.
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