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Nixonette
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English
thumb|right|"Nixonette" dress (on left)
Etymology
From en Nixon ette female.
Noun
en US politics historical A young woman who performed as a dancer/cheerleader at campaign rallies for Richard Nixon.
en David English and the Staff of the London Daily Express Divided They Stand London Michael Joseph Ltd 1969 285 9780718101930 The entrance to the hotel was flanked, as if it were the doors of a potentate’s private suite, with two bands and the high-kicking Nixonettes.
en Patty Newman August 1972 Perched Like a Weather Vane San Diego, Calif. World Research, Inc. 1972 89–90 At the Republican convention the nominee was staying in Key Biscayne, but you could not get in the Doral because you might assassinate a Nixonette.I wanted to tell a Nixonette that it was a well-known fact that McGovern is anti-music and his advisors are still trying to decide his stand on the love question … but she’d probably just grin and nod and say “that’s right” in a positively Nixonette manner … and I’d get the grues again.
en Janet Mason Ellerby Richard Nixon and Me Following the Tambourine Man: A Birthmother’s Memoir Syracuse, N.Y. w:Syracuse University Press 2007 section “San Marino, 1962” 24 978-0-8156-0889-9 But, while I was still the girl my parents expected me to be, I was asked to be a Nixonette, and I merrily, unthinkingly donned my white dress and red, white, and blue banner. One of our Nixonette duties was to stand on the curb in front of the San Marino Republican Headquarters and welcome the candidate to town.
Anagrams
en eeinnottx extention
en eponyms
en Richard Nixon