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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


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


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