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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

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

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

His mother, during her lying-in period in the year 1812, was reading a popular novel, The Three Spaniards, that had as its hero a derring-do lad named Fernando.

From Time Magazine Archive

My lying-in and winter are coming on, so we are wound up in an inextricable dilemma.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas