nursing mother

a mother who is breast-feeding her baby

a biblical name for foster mother

Words nearby nursing mother

Superbly and exceptionally endowed and fitted for her end, Violet had refused the task of nursing-mother.

The Combined Maze |May Sinclair
(Thus) I alone am different from other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).

Tao Teh King |Lao-Tze
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
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