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- adjective Resembling a
nurse or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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On the paths nannies walked in nurselike outfits pushing baby carriages with tall wooden-spoke wheels.
Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995
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Hattie so nurselike in denim and white; and Rowena always so neat in hers with spirals, which she bought ready made at the store for seven dollars and fifty-two cents -- I cannot say; but when I see these marvels
Maw's Vacation The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone Emerson Hough 1890
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Him, and engineers God's path through the wilderness of the world, will come behind Him and nurselike lay hold of our feeble arms and teach us to go in the way God would have us to walk.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868
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During the opening, two women dressed in nurselike white outfits carefully unwound the delicate paper on which the images are printed, making each visible, one by one.
artforum.com 2010
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Indian women in nurselike uniforms and hairnets scurried around the dirty joint, and my better judgment began to have reservations.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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a curious kind of authority, half fatherly, half nurselike, over the
The Caged Lion Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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