crèche

Mr. Rave says that this crèche is unusually large.

From NewsForKids.net ● May 7, 2024

In the end, because their daughter then did not settle in crèche they found a childminder.

From BBC ● May 10, 2023

Gazing at the crèche, Maria Letizia Panerai, 58, said the ceramic figures were just what she was looking for in a manger scene.

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 thatched crèche was inside the altar rail.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

“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

There’s a reference to “the goon from the Stasi,” to crèches “heaving with lush lice” and to “posed, high,/pelvic bridges.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2014

The London crèches have a night school for working girls and grown women in connection with the principal part of the institution; also a Sunday school for children.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various