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Creche   Listen
noun
Creche  n.  
1.
A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work.
2.
A day-care center for young children.
3.
A three-dimensional model of the scene described in the Bible at the birth of Jesus Christ in a stable at Bethlehem, with Mary and Joseph near a manger in which a model of the infant Christ child is lain, and usually including figures of animals, shepherds, and the three wise men; also called a Nativity scene. The figures in the scene are typically made as individual statues or figurines. Smaller models are displayed in homes and other indoor locations during the Christmans season, and larger models, often life-size, may be displayed out of doors.
4.
(Biol.) A nest where the young of several animals are cared for in a communal fashion.





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"Creche" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


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


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