Nightingale

nome proprio

1. 1

   A surname.

   After the death of his [Verney's] first wife, he proposed to Florence Nightingale but she refused him. Later he married her sister, and for many years Claydon was Miss Nightingale's second home.

2. 2

   A hamlet in Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada, named after Florence Nightingale.

sostantivo

1. 1

   A temporary facility built at short notice during the COVID-19 pandemic, or by extension any other emergency.

   In June, the National Education Union wrote to the government, asking it to set up “Nightingale schools”: classrooms in churches, libraries and leisure centres.

   This scenario would put the NHS under extreme pressure and lead to more non-Covid patients being turned away and use of all available space in Nightingales.

   In order to create more prison spaces, Farage said his party would spend £5bn to build and operate five new low-security 'Nightingale' prisons on Ministry of Defence land, creating 12,400 spaces for "lower category offenders".

   The last place he showed me was an empty ward, once used as a Nightingale ward for Covid.

Forme

plurale

Nightingales