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
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
"As a result, it occasionally occurred that an otherwise healthy young woman dropped dead of a pulmonary embolism as she was getting into a taxi with her baby to leave the lying-in hospital."
From Time Magazine Archive
"That is the answer of a lying-in wife in Scotland," said he, still smiling.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
