milk-mother

See also: milk mother

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milk-mother (plural milk-mothers)

  1. Wet nurse (especially in an Islamic context, or the literal translation of the Chinese term 奶媽).
    Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb was the milk-mother of the Prophet Muhammad.

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