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lying-in

[lahy-ing-in] / ˈlaɪ ɪŋˈɪn /


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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

Thirteen years ago Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis obtained thousands of gallons of urine from pregnant women in lying-in hospitals.

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

Hirohito was born in the lying-in chamber of Tokyo's Aoyama Palace on April 29, 1901.

From Time Magazine Archive

Propped up by pillows and covered with farooa, she receives lying-in state visits. 

From The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Habeeb Risk Allah

The daily business of this good lady was to scold the maids, collect eggs, feed the turkeys and assist at all lyings-in that happened within the parish.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various




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