Bonne
Dry nurse
Dry nurse noun - A girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children.
Usage example: 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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Dry nurse and Bonne. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bonne/dry_nurse
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