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nursingwear

nursingwear noun: clothing to be worn for nursing.

Noun

nursingwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing to be worn for nursing.
    • Peapods features slings in many fabrics and colors, unique nursingwear, attachment parenting and breastfeeding books, as well as toys.1999, Katie Allison Granju, Betsy Kennedy, Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 41
    • the complete Motherhood nursingwear spring collection2000 January/February, Mothering, number 98, page 17

Examples of nursingwear in a sentence

  • In her free time, she likes to write proposals to major clothing manufacturers asking them to design and carry nursingwear.2006, Matt Kellogg, Jillian Quint, editors, Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers, New York, N.Y.: Random House Trade...
  • Here are some good online sources for nursingwear: […]2007, Bridget Swinney, Baby Bites, Meadowbrook Press, →ISBN, page 29:

Origin of nursingwear

From nursing + -wear.

Questions about nursingwear

What does nursingwear mean?
Nursingwear means clothing to be worn for nursing.
How do you use nursingwear in a sentence?
In her free time, she likes to write proposals to major clothing manufacturers asking them to design and carry nursingwear.
What part of speech is nursingwear?
Nursingwear is a noun.

Words near nursingwear in the dictionary

  1. nursing informatics
  2. nursing pad
  3. nursing pads
  4. nursingly
  5. nursings
  6. nursingwear
  7. nursle
  8. nursled
  9. nursles
  10. nursling
  11. Nursling and Rownhams

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