Dick-and-Jane

(dĭk′ənd-jān′)

adj.

Of or relating to a book for beginning readers using a small set of basic words that are frequently repeated.

[After Fun with Dick and Jane, and similar titles, children's readers by William S. Gray (1885-1960) and May Hill Arbuthnot (1884-1969).]

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