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Creche

noun

A hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for. Synonym: foundling hospital.

A representation of Christ's nativity in the stable at Bethlehem.

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"Creche" Quotes from Famous Books

... older and more professional, and the nephews and nieces become more numerous, she will give up hiding her work. People who are intimately connected with the family will show no surprise, and to inquisitive strangers, unless she is very religious, she can murmur something about a creche, so long, of course, ...

— The Professional Aunt • Mary C.E. Wemyss

... from ugliness. They had sailed from New York with the vaguest ideas of the war conditions they would encounter; they believed that they were needed to do a nurse-maid's job for France. Their original purpose was to found a creche for the babies of women munition-workers. When they got to Paris they found that such institutions were not wanted. They at once changed their programme, and asked to be allowed to take their creche into the army zone and convert it into a hospital for refugee children. There were interminable ...

— Out To Win - The Story of America in France • Coningsby Dawson

Words linked to "Creche" : infirmary, representation, hospital