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means A woman or girl employed to care for young children, especially in an earlier era of domestic households.

from A straightforward compound of 'nurse' — from Old French 'norrice,' tracing back to Latin 'nutricia,' meaning one who nourishes — and 'maid,' the old word for an unmarried young woman or female servant. Together they describe exactly the job: a maid whose task is nursing, meaning tending and caring for children, not necessarily breastfeeding, though that was the word's older, narrower sense.