Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wet-nurse.
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Examples
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A Welsh milk-woman going by accident into the ward, heard him, answered him and conversed with him.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 Various
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After a time, Margaret had a chance to get a bakery, and then she became a bread-woman instead of a milk-woman.
Stories to Tell to Children Sara Cone Bryant
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Now and then a sturdy milk-woman passed by with a wooden yoke over her shoulders, supporting a pail on either side, filled with a whitish fluid, the composition of which was water and chalk and the milk of a sickly cow, who gave the best she had, poor thing! but could scarcely make it rich or wholesome, spending her life in some close city-nook and pasturing on strange food.
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Mother Denis, the milk-woman over the way, who had learned, at the same time, the danger I had been in, and that I was now beginning to be convalescent.
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After a time, Margaret had a chance to get a bakery, and then she became a bread-woman instead of a milk-woman.
Stories to Tell to Children: Fifty-One Stories With Some Suggestions for Telling 1907
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No sooner was he in Paddington than, after buying a glass of milk from a milk-woman, he set off citywards again by the Oxford road.
The Path of the King John Buchan 1907
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The milk-woman, in her turn, brought along and kept in my room a box in which were a
The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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When, tomorrow, my iron safe will be opened in the presence of these -- Khema, Thako, the milk-woman and all the rest ...
The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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It reminds me of the story of the Irish milk-woman who was confronted with a stickleback found in the milk.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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It reminds me of the story of the Irish milk-woman who was confronted with a stickleback found in the milk.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
Prolagus commented on the word milk-woman
Not a female milk-man.
May 16, 2011