night nurse

noun

a nurse whose duty is to look after a patient or patients during the night

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Example sentences from the Web for night nurse

The night-nurse is below—I will send her up as I go downstairs.
Basil|Wilkie Collins
There, along the darkened passages, he found a night-nurse, sitting working beside a shaded lamp.
The Marriage of William Ashe|Mrs. Humphry Ward
The evidence of the night-nurse bears with terrible weight upon this point.
The Notting Hill Mystery|Charles Felix
The house was very still, only the occasional step of a night-nurse audible in the passages and rooms upstairs.
The Bright Messenger|Algernon Blackwood

A night-nurse was seated at my bedside, reading by a green-shaded lamp.
The Place of Dragons|William Le Queux

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