nurserymaid

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   historical, chiefly British: a female domestic servant employed to care for young children, often as an assistant to a nurse or nanny

   The nurserymaid dressed the children and tidied their room before breakfast.

Formed in English from nursery + maid. In larger nineteenth-century households, a nurserymaid worked in the children's rooms under a senior nurse or nanny; upper and under nurserymaids could form a small domestic hierarchy.

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