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Definition of Pacifiers
1. pacifier [n] - See also: pacifier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pacifiers
Literary usage of Pacifiers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Personal Hygiene: Proper Living Upon a Physiologic Basis by Walter Lytle Pyle (1917)
"Pacifiers should never be given the baby, for if frequently used they lead to
deformity of the jaws, and they are disease-breeders. ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1920)
"There were twenty-four children in the seats to whom she had distributed the
pacifiers. The pacifiers in question were dirty, and filthy, ..."
3. Helping Children Take Healthy Steps: Abstracts of Selected Articles on Early edited by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (1999)
"57% of mothers in the intervention group had one-piece pacifiers, whereas only
32% of mothers in the control group were using one-piece pacifiers for their ..."
4. Eighth Annual Report on Carcinogens: 1998 Summary edited by Barry Leonard (1999)
"CPSC and FDA reported that nitrosamine have been detected in pacifiers and baby
bottle nipples, which could result in potential ingestion of these compounds ..."