nurseman

Noun

nurseman (plural nursemen)

1. A man employed to care for children.
   • Danby, the nurseman, was cautioned against kissing, or permitting kisses from the little girl (still the baby of the Evelyn family);1859, Oliné Keese [pen name; Caroline Leakey], “Port Arthur.—The Settlement.”, in The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, page...
   • Then every one was complaining about the high price of labor, and it was supposed that a Chinese “nurseman,” at two dollars and a half a month, would be a decided improvement over a French bonne with watery eyes and a Corkonian accent, and that a cook who could make at least tolerable dishes at...1879 April, David D. Porter, “The Chinese in America—Present and Future, Etc.”, in The United Service. A Quarterly Review of Military and Naval Affairs., volume I, number II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lewis...