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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



... sufficiently disquieting in themselves, were followed by stories of the concealed birth of a child, who had come mysteriously to swell the numbers of the Princess's proteges of the creche. Even King George, whose sympathy with his heir's ill-used wife was a matter of common knowledge, could not overlook a charge so grave as this. It must be investigated in the interests of the State, as well as ...
— Love affairs of the Courts of Europe • Thornton Hall


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


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