Wet-nurse in a sentence as a noun

"The first instance in English of nurse occurred in the early thirteenth century as the Anglo-Norman nurice, derived from the fifth-century post-Classical Latin nutrice, a wet-nurse.

Wet-nurse definitions

noun

a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else

See also: wetnurse amah

verb

give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"

See also: breastfeed suckle suck nurse lactate