amahs in English

noun
1
a nursemaid or maid in East Asia or India.
She had been a perfect amah and servant since her employment there began only a few years before.

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3. Amahs 'Amahs' is a 5 letter word starting with A and ending with S Crossword clues for 'Amahs'

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7. — English word, define in French — Amahs n

8. Amahs is playable in: Words With Friends 10

9. Amahs 10 is a valid Scrabble Word in NWL, formerly TWL (USA, Thailand, Canada) Amahs 10 is a valid Scrabble Word in CSW, formerly SOWPODS (Other Countries) Amahs 10 is a valid word in WWF

10. Historical background While all majie worked as domestic servants, not all Amahs were majie.The term “majie” is used to refer to a distinct group of Amahs who came

11. Traditionally Amahs were unmarried women who sought financial independence in paid employment

12. The Amahs' keenest pain, however, is separation from loved ones.Most Amahs leave their children and husbands behind for years, or for good, in order to …

13. The Amahs: China’s sisterhood of quiet pioneers By Roger Lee

14. The word Amahs uses 5 letters: a, a, h, m, s

15. 15 synonyms and near synonyms of Amahs from the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

16. Amahs On Wheels Pte Ltd is located at Wintech Centre, 6 Ubi Road 1, Tel 6837 2708, view Amahs On Wheels Pte Ltd location, products and services on Streetdirectory Map

17. For occasions like these, we will send down a team of Amahs to work their magic.

18. They have a large list of potential Amahs and have all their biodatas

19. A list of words that end with Amahs.We search a large Scrabble dictionary for words ending with the letter or word you enter, and generate all words ending with Amahs (words with the suffix Amahs)

20. Synonyms for Ayahs include nursemaids, nannies, nurses, babysitters, nursers, governesses, sitters, childminders, childcarers and amahs

21. Amahs (domestic servants) did most of the housework for the wives, including assisting with children

22. A family with two Amahs would have one as a cook and one as a domestic amah

23. Amah (plural Amahs) In South Asia, a woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse

24. Experimental results indicated that the efficiency of Amahs was up to 94.86% at the concentration of 2 g/L

25. Other domestic helpers, or " Amahs " in Cantonese, sleep in closets, on the bathroom floor and under the dining table

26. The majie were a group of women who worked as domestic helpers, or Amahs, in Singapore between the 1930s and 1970s

27. Hong Kong movies have made sharp-tongued caricatures of Amahs, the women who left the mainland to make a living as housemaids

28. Eric Pretty was a little bit fussy, but I stayed there and really felt like a big shot with all the Portuguese Amahs

29. Hong Kong's unemployed investment bankers won't be taking the "Amahs" who care for their children back to London.Next Crisis: Remittances Falling Off

30. T he Amahs were women who left rural China for Hong Kong in the late 1940s to find work as live-in housemaids in wealthy households

31. 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.”

32. 1960s Singapore – Amahs (by Tim Light) amah [ˈɑːmə ˈæmə] n (in the East, esp formerly) a nurse or maidservant, esp one of Chinese origin

33. If you want to learnabout Hong Kong's "Lion Rock Spirit" — local slang for a can-do spirit — go see the theatre production The Amahs. Showing in the …

34. Often the families became very attached to their Amahs and vice versa, so much so that when separation came at the end of the tour, the break was often a very tearful one.

35. Why Amahs on Wheels and not hourly rated part time maid? We are a professional cleaning and housekeeping company and we pride ourselves to provide the best service in all aspects: Skill level

36. Engaged A-Team Amahs and Cleaners for a part-time maid and i would said the agency is very dishonest and is only keen in earning the fee, which is a premium to pay

37. Electrochemical tests and surface morphology analysis showed that Amahs served as a mixed‐type corrosion inhibitor, which could be adsorbed and self‐assembled on the surface of mild steel forming a highly hydrophobic protective film

38. Aahs aaliyahs adahs ahs aliyahs Alleluiahs almahs almirahs amahs amlahs ayahs ayatollahs bablahs bahs baitzvahs barmitzvahs bekahs bimahs blahs boohbahs brahs buansuahs buniahs bunniahs cahs casbahs chaiwallahs chalahs challahs cheatahs cheetahs chetahs chinasmynahs chuddahs chuppahs coolabahs coolibahs dabbawallahs dacotahs dagobahs dahabeahs

39. Collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand This project is dedicated to studying the female domestic care workers from India and China who travelled to Australia and elsewhere during the period of British colonialism, the travelling Ayahs and Amahs.

40. The Ayahs' Home, London, provided accommodation for Indian Ayahs and Chinese amahs (nannies) at the turn of the 20th century who were "ill-treated, dismissed from service or simply abandoned" with no return passage to their home country.

41. ‘These women have been called the first generation of feminists in modern China, and they worked as Amahs in Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore.’ ‘I think of telling him that I would divorce the wife, send the kids to an orphanage, fire the amah, sell the apartment, and rent a flat in Sheung Wan.’

42. ‘These women have been called the first generation of feminists in modern China, and they worked as Amahs in Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore.’ ‘I think of telling him that I would divorce the wife, send the kids to an orphanage, fire the Amah, sell the apartment, and rent a flat in Sheung Wan.’