lying-in

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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

"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

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

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

"I have not given you any money towards buying your lying-in clothes, and I must therefore furnish my part with my own work," replied the young girl.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Sue, Eugène