What is "nourice"

Usage examples of "nourice".

For I am not onely of kindred to thy mother by blood, but also by nourice, for wee both descended of the line of Plutarch, lay in one belly, sucked the same paps, and were brought up together in one house.

Meg had raced ahead, eager to return to the cottage and show Nourice the starfish that she had found.

She had swallowed her grief, learned to accept the fact that Nourice had vanished from her life.

Unlike her kind soft Nourice, Finette was all hard angles from her sharp face and sly eyes to her flat bosom and bony hips.

How often had Nourice warned Meg against necromancy, the forbidden practice of summoning the dead.

Had her gentle Nourice really threatened Maman or did Meg merely imagine the entire quarrel?

All she was truly certain of was that the next day Nourice had vanished and Maman had forced Meg to start wearing the medallion.