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    [Verb]  | "dry-nurse" | \ (ˈ)drī-ˈnərs \


    1: to take care of but not breastfeed (another woman's baby) : to act as a dry nurse to

    2: to give unnecessary supervision to


    Origin: 1581 ;

    [Noun]  | "dry nurse" 


    1: a woman who takes care of but does not breastfeed another woman's baby


    Origin: 1598 ;

    [Noun]  | "dry nurse" 


    1: a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children;


      * e.g., " ... after years of being a dry nurse to other women's children, she longed to have a child of her own "



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