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nursewear

nursewear noun: clothing to be worn by nurses.

nursewear: clothing to be worn by nurses
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Noun

nursewear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing to be worn by nurses.
    • Showing British Woollen Frocks . . . American Afternoon Frocks . . . Air Raid Emergency Suits, Landwear and Nursewear, including British Red Cross Uniforms!1939 October 2, Evening Standard, number 35,906, London, page 3
    • They also manufacture clerical collars, plastic fronts and nursewear.1955, Air Power; the Air Forces’ Quarterly, page 293

Examples of nursewear in a sentence

  • Smart dress­es and pantsuits . . . in our crisp new line of nursewear.1972 February 1, “$8.50 News for Nurses”, in Daily Independent Journal, volume 111, number 269, San Rafael, Calif., page 14:
  • This nurse looked like something out of a racy-nursewear catalogue, like somebody that had to detour blocks out of her way to avoid construction sites at lunchtime.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 895:
  • Meg gravitated towards the costumes, openly wondering about the nursewear.2004, David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 175:
  • Quite a few had an erotic slant – for instance, nursewear, policewear, full bondage gear – but I wanted to hide from Mr Death, not be chased by him like a malnourished Benny Hill.2012, Richard Milward, Kimberly’s Capital Punishment, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 187:

Origin of nursewear

From nurse + -wear.

Questions about nursewear

What does nursewear mean?
Nursewear means clothing to be worn by nurses.
How do you use nursewear in a sentence?
Smart dress­es and pantsuits . . . in our crisp new line of nursewear.
What part of speech is nursewear?
Nursewear is a noun.

Words near nursewear in the dictionary

  1. nursespeak
  2. nursest
  3. nursetender
  4. nursetenders
  5. nurseth
  6. nursewear
  7. nursey
  8. nurseys
  9. nurshing
  10. nursie
  11. nursies

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