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名詞

dry-nurse (複数形 dry-nurses)

1. A nurse who takes care of a baby, but does not breastfeed

   Coordinate term: wet nurse

   The family found a dry-nurse to take care of the infant.

名詞

dry nurse (複数形 dry nurses)

1. (chiefly historical) A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand

参照

• “dry nurse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

動詞

drynurse (三人称単数 現在形 drynurses, 現在分詞 drynursing, 過去形および過去分詞形 drynursed)

1. To feed, attend, and bring up without suckling.
   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: At the University Press, 1905, OCLC 963614346:

     As Romulus a wolf did rear,
     So he was dry-nursed by a bear,
     That fed him with the purchased prey
     Of many a fierce and bloody fray.