creche

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for
noun a representation of Christ's nativity in the stable at Bethlehem

The industrial emancipation of women, the correlated disorganisation of the secluded "home," had rendered creches a necessity for all but very rich and exceptionally-minded people. — Tales of Space and Time, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
If Plato’s ‘pen’ was as fatal as the Creches of Paris, or the foundling hospital of Dublin, more than nine-tenths of his children would have perished. — The Republic, Plato
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! — The Luckiest Girl in the School, Angela Brazil

foundling hospital

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