Sentence examples for amah from inspiring English sources
noun
In South Asia, a woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
There are a special group of strong-armed women, called amah sans-a term of Japanese origin meaning "sea girls".
Luckily his amah had some aloe with her in an etui.
In "My Hollywood," a compassionate fictional exploration of this complicated global relationship, Simpson assesses the human cost that the child-care bargain exacts on the amah, on her employer and on the children of both.
Living in Hong Kong in the late 1960s, she was an unusual expat mum who refused to have a resident amah (maidservant).
The New Yorker, July 7 , 1934P. 10 A young lady, who was presented at the British Court this year, had been travelling in the Orient and arrived in Londonwith a Chinese amah, or nursemaid.
Still, their ongoing experience of being brushed off by the government should spur them to think differently about the overlooked amahs.
And it has been going on for years.These participants are foreign domestic helpers, called "amahs" locally.
They lived with a cook and 2 baby amahs.
"To their relatives back home," Auerbach writes, "whom they frequently support, feed, clothe and send to school with a large chunk of their monthly salary, the amahs are the ones who have made it".
But she also reminded her readers that nannies, known in East Asia as amahs, are working women too.
