nursegirl

plural nursegirls

1. A young woman employed to look after a baby or young child.First known use 18th c.

   The reapers were slowly trooping back to their work. The nurse-girl slapped one of her charges and then began to push the perambulator up the hill.

   1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

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   Caroline was that hard and unalterable fact which turned Martha's life, in spite of a pleasant and helpful nursegirl, into a routine which began at five sharp every morning when the light first showed, and ended at seven in the evening, when she went to bed.

   1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 330

2. A young woman who help to take care of the sick or infirm.