lying-in
Example Sentences
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Columbia Women’s opened for business inside a former mansion as a “hospital and dispensary for the treatment of diseases peculiar to women, and a lying-in asylum,” according to its congressional charter.
From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2019
The large lying-in cast of Life Begins emphasizes the predicament of its most pathetic member, Grace Sutton.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the Norths' lying-in, the two-part film shifts somberly to a different sort of hospital: one for advanced-cancer patients.
From Time Magazine Archive
For he is called to Chicago on the day he is to marry a home-town girl, to do his duty by Teresa Wright in a lying-in hospital.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1818 foundling asylums and lying-in houses were declared to be state institutions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
