A native Hindû nurse or lady’s maid.
“The ayahs, or nurses, are said to be the best in the world.”—B. Taylor: Visit to India, chap. ii. p. 37.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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