night nurse

noun

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

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Examples from the Web for night nurse

Historical Examples

A night-nurse was seated at my bedside, reading by a green-shaded lamp.
The Place of Dragons
William Le Queux
The night-nurse is below—I will send her up as I go downstairs.
Basil
Wilkie Collins
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
The evidence of the night-nurse bears with terrible weight upon this point.
The Notting Hill Mystery
Charles Felix
There, along the darkened passages, he found a night-nurse, sitting working beside a shaded lamp.
The Marriage of William Ashe
Mrs. Humphry Ward

night nurse

Examples from the Web for night nurse

Historical Examples

A night-nurse was seated at my bedside, reading by a green-shaded lamp.

The night-nurse is below—I will send her up as I go downstairs.

The house was very still, only the occasional step of a night-nurse audible in the passages and rooms upstairs.

The evidence of the night-nurse bears with terrible weight upon this point.

There, along the darkened passages, he found a night-nurse, sitting working beside a shaded lamp.