nail scissors

noun(usually used with a plural verb)

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

Origin of nail scissors

First recorded in 1850–55

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The nail file and nail scissors must be used as often as possible.
The Complete Bachelor | Walter Germain
She took a nail scissors, clipped out the 'My God' and showed the rest of the letter all over school.
This Side of Paradise | F. Scott Fitzgerald
A touch of the hairbrush was necessary, and for his hands the file of the nail-scissors.
Mammon and Co. | E. F. Benson
Lacking this, she trundled home with all speed, and began cutting out roses with swift and certain strokes of the nail-scissors.
Miss Mapp | Edward Frederic Benson
Then I took scissors, short-nail scissors, and I cut its throat with three slits, quite gently.
Original Short Stories, Volume 11 (of 13) | Guy de Maupassant

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