wetnurse in English
noun
1
a woman employed to suckle another woman's child.
The fourth type of wet-nursing developed when the Church and the State employed wet nurses to suckle foundlings in institutions created for saving souls and lives.
verb
1
act as a wet nurse to.
They paid them, wet-nursed them, mind them, breed them, fed them and nurtured them, the Opposition Leader said.
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