| 单词 | woman keeper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswoman keeper woman keeper n. now historical a female nurse (see keeper n. 1e). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > female woman keeper1580 women-sleeper1630 1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 1055 Between euery twentie children one woman keeper, whych children were in number 340. 1707 N. Tate Injur'd Love v. 59 The Snuff is out; no Woman-keeper i'th' World, Tho' she had practis'd seven years at the Pest-House, Could have don't quaintlier. 1879 J. S. Lloyd Hazelhurst Myst. xiv. 276 She offered to receive Kate and a woman-keeper, and promised to see that she was treated with care and kindness. 2004 Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. 58 269 Brutal forced feeding..using a long spouted ‘tea pot’..caused suffocation. Mrs Hodges..had died this way at the hands of a cack-handed woman keeper, Mary Seal. < as lemmas |
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