nursewear

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

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

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.

2012, Richard Milward, Kimberly’s Capital Punishment, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 187