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Meanings of creche in English

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A hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for.

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        Examples for "foundling hospital"
        Examples for "foundling hospital"
        1
        The risk of the education of the foundling hospital was much less.
        The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 09
        2
        Nothing now remains, but that I review my positions concerning the foundling hospital.
        The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06 ...
        3
        This benevolent man sends his own children to a foundling hospital.
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13: Great Writers / Dr Lord's U...
        4
        Was she too old for a foundling hospital?
        The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
        5
        The orphan department and the foundling hospital, are under the special care of the sisters of charity.
        Paris: With Pen and Pencil / Its People and Literature, Its Life...
        Usage of creche in English
        1
        Is this something city dwellers doing the creche-to-work run can achieve too?
        The Irish Times
        2
        It makes already mortgage-stretched, two-career couples "creche-poor", creating an unacknowledged economic strain not reflected in the cost-of-living index.
        The Irish Times
        3
        But he then ran into the creche's rooms and launched his attacks, slashing at victims with a knife, before cycling off.
        The Irish Times
        4
        A CRECHE in Limerick has closed voluntarily after a child developed meningitis.
        The Irish Times
        5
        Then you will please take me to the creche.
        Masters of Space
        6
        His plan anticipated the Kindergarten and the Creche.
        Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 / Little J...
        7
        I always tell her that her mission in life is to run a creche-orshould be.
        Sisters
        8
        Ballybay Community Creche was forced to close following the outbreak, to limit the spread of the infection.
        The Irish Times
        9
        But not exactly at that creche meeting.
        Plays by August Strindberg: Creditors. Pariah.
        10
        The family were all smiles as they paid a visit to the Entokozweni Creche in Orange Farm, Gauteng.
        The South African
        11
        The sanitarium and creche would have to close within a week, and Sommers was left to arrange matters.
        The Web of Life
        12
        'There ought to be a huge public creche in London.
        New Grub Street
        13
        Next, about finding that creche.
        Masters of Space
        14
        "What they really need is a combination palace, houseboat, sanatorium, and creche."
        Fanny Herself
        15
        By October 1992 four of Ellis' female co-workers at the Christchurch Civic Creche, were arrested on child sex assault charges.
        Radio NZ
        16
        What I would like to do, Laro, is take you to the creche and put your disobedient brain back into the matrix.
        Masters of Space
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