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nursing mother

noun

  1. a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
  2. a biblical name for foster mother
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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England, on the other hand, was the pioneer of civilization, and the nursing-mother of missionary enterprise.

The venison tasted deliciously, especially as the poor nursing mother was almost famished.

Often the love of pleasure brings with it this punishment to the nursing mother who neglects her maternal duties.

No nursing mother is safe whose breasts are not properly and daily emptied.

To the people who made this language the sea has been the "nursing mother."

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