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candy-striper

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candy-striper
Usage notes: informal
a hospital volunteer, named for the striped pink and white uniforms traditionally worn by the young women, typically junior high or high school students, who perform this service.


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Larsen had worked at the hospital since the late 1960s, first as a candy-striper, a teenage volunteer, and then as a registered nurse after she got her degree at Lane Community College.
When I once mentioned to a man that I still had my high-school uniform and my old candy-striper garb, he hopefully inquired if I'd ever also been a storm trooper.
 
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