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Definition of Nursery rhyme
1. Noun. A tale in rhymed verse for children.
Definition of Nursery rhyme
1. Noun. A short poem or song for children, mostly anonymous or handed down by folklore ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nursery Rhyme
Literary usage of Nursery rhyme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"It is in common use, and occurs in Florio, p. 139. FINGERS. The fingers are thus
named in a nursery rhyme, thumb, foreman, longman, ringman, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"Now that will be a very good nursery rhyme indeed, when it is a little mellowed
by time ; and the illustration of the perplexed cow clinging round the ..."
3. Picture Making by Photography by Henry Peach Robinson (1884)
"... the old nursery rhyme :— " Open the gate and let her through, for she is Patty
... nursery rhyme ..."
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