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crèche

[kresh, kraysh, kresh] / krɛʃ, kreɪʃ, krɛʃ /


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

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025

Mr. Rave says that this crèche is unusually large.

From NewsForKids.net ● May 7, 2024

ACLU, in which the Supreme Court held that the Constitution’s establishment clause barred the displays of a crèche and the Ten Commandments in county courthouses.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2022

But on Saturday, Pope Francis came to the rescue of both the conifer and the crèche.

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2020

You’d have loved all of this—as well as the strings of lights she wound around the crèche and the branch she stuck in a pot and called a Christmas tree.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

“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

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

Mr. Beck came up with Playmobil, whose miniature models and environments are said to have been inspired by children’s drawings and the figurines of traditional Christmas crèches.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2015

A system of such crèches had almost entirely replaced the hazardous adventures of the old-world nursing.

From The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells


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