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crèche

[kresh, kreysh, kresh] / krɛʃ, kreɪʃ, krɛʃ /


NOUN
manger
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Forbes has since criticised the Scottish Parliament's crèche facilities, which are only available for three hours a day from Tuesday to Thursday.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2025

Mr. Rave says that this crèche is unusually large.

From NewsForKids.net May 7, 2024

Plus, in the year of the epidemic, she appreciated that there was something otherworldly, but also empathetic, about a crèche that had endured natural disasters and scorn.

From New York Times Dec. 18, 2020

Eighteenth-century terra-cotta angels in silk robes deck the tree’s boughs, and an elaborate crèche re-creating the bustle of life in the port city of Naples sprawls at its base.

From The New Yorker Nov. 16, 2018

The older children from the crèche are walking into the theater.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

“I’ve seen crèches up to 35 and 50 often, but 70 — that would be a very big crèche,” he told the New York Times.

From NewsForKids.net May 7, 2024

Nathalie Vaillant, a psychologist who helps train early childhood workers, including at Paris-area crèches, thinks 2 is simply too young for school.

From Slate Nov. 30, 2017

It is her description of the nativity scene that has been adapted by most Renaissance artists, and appears today in the countless crèches that abound the world over.

From Salon Dec. 25, 2016

France’s pro-natalist policies, historically inspired by the need to breed soldiers to keep Germany at bay, guarantee Scandinavian levels of spending on family benefits and crèches.

From Economist May 26, 2016

In mid-1973 there were crèches for children from infancy to three years of age.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut




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