Definition of "nursery rhyme" []

• A short, rhymed poem or tale for children. (noun)

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• "Mr. Campion crossed the bridge over the wide, lazy Rhone, reflecting idiotically that the new bridge was better than the old Pont d’Avignon of the nursery rhyme because there was enough of it to reach to the other side."