nourrice

J'ai eu du mal a le deshabiller mon pitit Raven mais il fallait bien que j'enleve toutes les protections sur son corps mais j'ai mis un temps fou a le rhabiller et je me suis piqué les doigts un nombre incalculable de fois avec toutes ces epingles a nourrice!

pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

Och, but the wean outskraugh, sclentan back on the breist o his nourrice, fairlie dumbfounert he was at the sicht o his daddie that loed him, fleggit sair at the bress and the crest wi its wallopan horsehair, kelteran doun frae the tap o the bassanat, unco the sicht o't.

languagehat.com: BRAW AND WITTY. 2004

Then the story goes on to state that Lammilsin crept in at a little shot window, and after some conversation with the "fause nourrice" they decide to

Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850 Various

Weirie comes home, and has the "fause nourrice" burnt at the stake.

Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850 Various

Camden, 'the nourrice of antiquitie,' received part of his education in this school; and here also, not to mention a variety of others known in the literary world, were bred two of the most powerful and deep-spirited writers of the present day; whose visits to the cloisters we well remember.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829 Various

Qu'avez-vous done, nourrice, a fair 'ce grand cri-la?

Folk Songs of French Canada 1929

Ah, c'etait le nourrice, la nourrice du roi, Un jour s'est endormie, l'enfant entre ses bras.

Folk Songs of French Canada 1929

The Nurse, or Norris, Fr. nourrice, was apparently debarred from rocking the cradle.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

Old Fr. noreis, the Northerner (Chapter XI), or norice (nourrice), the nurse, foster-mother (Chapter XX).

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

But you do not know that when a child comes in a poor family, the father and mother go to prison _pour mois de nourrice_.

In the Days of Poor Richard Irving Bacheller 1904