nursing mother

noun

a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
a biblical name for foster mother

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This foundation is a nursing-mother of lay, as distinguished from religious, oratorios.
"Stops"
Paul Allardyce
(Thus) I alone am different from other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).
Tao Teh King
Lao-Tze
Oxford has always been a nursing-mother of polished satirists.
Collections and Recollections
George William Erskine Russell
England, on the other hand, was the pioneer of civilization, and the nursing-mother of missionary enterprise.
Hyacinth
George A. Birmingham
The too good opinion man has of himself is the nursing-mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
James Wood

nursing mother

Examples from the Web for nursing mother

Historical Examples

This foundation is a nursing-mother of lay, as distinguished from religious, oratorios.

(Thus) I alone am different from other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).

Oxford has always been a nursing-mother of polished satirists.

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

The too good opinion man has of himself is the nursing-mother of all false opinions, both public and private.