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- noun Plural form of
amah .
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Examples
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Hong Kong's unemployed investment bankers won't be taking the "amahs" who care for their children back to London.
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MacArthur meanwhile landed safely in Melbourne, taking with him on the PT-41 “his wife, his child, two Chinese amahs, and several trunks of personal belongings.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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MacArthur meanwhile landed safely in Melbourne, taking with him on the PT-41 “his wife, his child, two Chinese amahs, and several trunks of personal belongings.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Pearl, her daughters, and two elderly amahs occupied the top floor.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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She bought a Buick for Lossing and posted parcels off to China: costly woolen wraps for the elderly amahs, toys for her nephews, a whole box of new dresses for Grace.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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She bought a Buick for Lossing and posted parcels off to China: costly woolen wraps for the elderly amahs, toys for her nephews, a whole box of new dresses for Grace.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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No one else could see the point of the two incompetent old peasant women taken on by Pearl as amahs because they had nowhere else to go.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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Pearl, her daughters, and two elderly amahs occupied the top floor.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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No one else could see the point of the two incompetent old peasant women taken on by Pearl as amahs because they had nowhere else to go.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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At the other house we shall be quite comfortable with a cook, a boy, a coolie, a chauffeur, a gardener and the two amahs for Mother and myself.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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