"nursewear" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1939 October 2, Evening Standard, number 35,906, London, page 3",
          "text": "Showing British Woollen Frocks . . . American Afternoon Frocks . . . Air Raid Emergency Suits, Landwear and Nursewear, including British Red Cross Uniforms!",
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          "ref": "1955, Air Power; the Air Forces’ Quarterly, page 293",
          "text": "They also manufacture clerical collars, plastic fronts and nursewear.",
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          "ref": "1972 February 1, “$8.50 News for Nurses”, in Daily Independent Journal, volume 111, number 269, San Rafael, Calif., page 14",
          "text": "Smart dress­es and pantsuits . . . in our crisp new line of nursewear.",
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          "ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Little, Brown and Company, page 895",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2004, David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility, Alfred A. Knopf, page 175",
          "text": "Meg gravitated towards the costumes, openly wondering about the nursewear.",
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          "ref": "2012, Richard Milward, Kimberly’s Capital Punishment, Faber and Faber, page 187",
          "text": "Polly’s dressing-up box was full of good disguises. 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.",
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          "ref": "2017, Michael Perry, “Mike Is a Nurse”, in Danger, Man Working: Writing from the Heart, the Gut, and the Poison Ivy Patch, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, section “Men Among Men”, page 37",
          "text": "I never did get a little white cap. A few hardcore purists still wear one with defiant pride, but these days classic nursewear is mostly relegated to cheesy porn.",
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          "ref": "1939 October 2, Evening Standard, number 35,906, London, page 3",
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          "text": "They also manufacture clerical collars, plastic fronts and nursewear.",
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          "ref": "1972 February 1, “$8.50 News for Nurses”, in Daily Independent Journal, volume 111, number 269, San Rafael, Calif., page 14",
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          "ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Little, Brown and Company, page 895",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        },
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          "text": "Polly’s dressing-up box was full of good disguises. 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.",
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