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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

... I'm going to do when I leave school," she told Marjorie rather shyly. "I shall go to help at a creche. When Winifrede was reading out that 'News of Old Girls' I felt utterly miserable, because I knew I could never do any of those things; a hospital makes me sick, and I'd be scared to death to drive a motor ambulance. I thought Winifrede would call me an utter slacker. ...

— A Patriotic Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil

... enforced inaction. She was one of those characters who would rather wear out than rust out, and it required the utmost firmness on the part of her doctor to persuade her from over-exerting herself. Instead of being in a continual whirl of creche committee meetings, workhouse inspections, and creche management, she now spent long quiet afternoons in the shaded drawing-room learning that (to her) hardest of all lessons, how to rest! Winona, busy with the last exciting weeks of the school term, was too occupied to give much thought ...

— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil

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