Florence Nightingale
English
editEtymology
editAppellativisation of Florence Nightingale
Noun
editFlorence Nightingale (plural Florence Nightingales)
- (figuratively) An outstanding nurse
- 1880, The National Conference of Charities and Corrections (p. 309)
- But there is no Florence Nightingale here . Patients , and those who pay good prices too , pass long , weary nights without attendance
- 1994, Mary Elizabeth Massey, Women in the Civil War, page 43:
- All Our Women Are Florence Nightingales
- 1996, M Gustafson, “Mary Seacole, the Florence Nightingale of Jamaica”, in PubMed:
- Mary Seacole, the Florence Nightingale of Jamaica
- 1880, The National Conference of Charities and Corrections (p. 309)