nail scissors

small scissors with short curved blades for trimming the fingernails or toenails.

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First recorded in 1850–55

Beside seven broken pairs of nail-scissors was a scent-bottle with golden stopper.
Carnival|Compton Mackenzie
One man had a pair of nail-scissors, and with this very awkward instrument I proceeded to operate.
At Suvla Bay|John Hargrave
Oh, I jabbed him in the eye with a pair of nail-scissors, and he went away!
The Girl on the Boat|Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
A touch of the hairbrush was necessary, and for his hands the file of the nail-scissors.
Mammon and Co.|E. F. Benson

It was a particularly sacred pair of nail-scissors that almost everything blunted.
Christopher and Columbus|Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim