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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1529-1549
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Nutrice,-yce, n. [L. nūtrīc-em, infl. form of nūtrix Nutrix: cf. heretrice beside heretrix, etc., and Nuris n.] A nurse, foster-mother. — 1529–30 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. 55.
To Besse the nutrice … for the gaddering of schellis to the aislaris laying 1549 J. Harryson Exhort. (1547) in Complaynte of Scotland 232.
The pytie of me your mother, your nutryce and your bringer vp
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