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Creche   /krɛʃ/   Listen
Creche

noun
1.
A hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for.  Synonym: foundling hospital.
2.
A representation of Christ's nativity in the stable at Bethlehem.





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"Creche" Quotes from Famous Books



... sur la paille fraiche, Ce cher petit enfant Jesus, Et pour rechauffer dans sa creche L'ane et le ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... to interfere with her after-dinner nap, and no wonder; for if a cohort of ghosts had been "shrieking and squealing," as Calpurnia puts it, in our back garden, or it had been fitted up as a creche for a nursery of goblin infants in the agonies of teething, the noise could not possibly have ...
— Stories By English Authors: London • Various
... the image of her invalid mother, all the details of the attic room, the litter of pencils on the table; the windows of a florist's shop where, standing on the pavement, she had studied hungrily the shapes of the blossoms poverty denied her as models; the interior of the Creche, which she had penetrated in order to sketch the heads of sleeping babies, as a study ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... be a huge public creche in London. It's monstrous that an educated mother should have to ...
— New Grub Street • George Gissing
... for the cookies to bake or the taffy to cool, Nina used to coax Antonia to tell her stories—about the calf that broke its leg, or how Yulka saved her little turkeys from drowning in the freshet, or about old Christmases and weddings in Bohemia. Nina interpreted the stories about the creche fancifully, and in spite of our derision she cherished a belief that Christ was born in Bohemia a short time before the Shimerdas left that country. We all liked Tony's stories. Her voice had a peculiarly ...
— My Antonia • Willa Sibert Cather


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