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Definition of Manicured
1. manicure [v] - See also: manicure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manicured
Literary usage of Manicured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Yucatan by Bruce Conord, June Conord (2005)
"Twenty-three Spanish-inspired villas - each containing one to five bedrooms or
studios - are scattered around 12 acres of manicured gardens. ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"The surgical care of the The daughter's [hands] shall trifle with books and music,
shall be soft and manicured and daintily gloved. The Century, XXXVIII. ..."
3. Adventure Guide to Costa Rica by Bruce Conord (2005)
"In the manicured gardens are 20 secluded individual villas, a master suite with
personal pool, and a grand overhanging infinity pool. ..."
4. A Text-book on the practice of gynecology: For Practitioners and Students by William Easterly Ashton (1916)
"The hair should be kept short and free from dandruff and the nails carefully
manicured. Too little attention, as a rule, is paid to the care of the hands, ..."
5. Dominion Dental Journal (1905)
"Your clothes look reasonably clean and tidy, and your linen fresh, and your hands
look soft and well-cared-for, and your nails are well-manicured —not ..."
6. Surgery of the Vascular System by Bertram Moses Bernheim (1913)
"The distal end must be rounded and "manicured" with a nail file to facilitate
coiling ... It is enough to say that the band, all properly cut and manicured, ..."
7. The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National by George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken (1920)
"§66 That what impels most men to have their fingernails manicured is a vanity
for having manicured finger-nails. §67 That water rots the hair and thus ..."
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