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    crèche
    [kreSH]
    noun
    crèche (noun) · crèches (plural noun)
    1. NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
      a model or tableau representing the scene of Jesus Christ's birth, displayed in homes or public places at Christmas.
    2. BRITISH ENGLISH
      a nursery where babies and young children are cared for during the working day.
    Origin
    late 18th century (in crèche): French (see also cratch).
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    Crèche or creche may refer to: Day care center, an organization of adults who take care of children in place of their parents. Nativity scene, a group of figures arranged to represent the birth of Jesus Christ. Crèche (zoology), animals taking care of young that are not their own.
    A special nursery, the "Creche," was built for their children. Along the floor of the ravine that was the only land approach to the Creche moved the twisting, writhing snake of the procession. It was the expressionless face of an android, a fine example of the Creche's production line.
    A creche is an establishment where very young children are looked after in the daytime, enabling their parents to work full time. A nursery is a place where children who are not old enough to go to school are looked after. Her company ran its own nursery. Read about the team of authors behind Collins Dictionaries.
    Her son was in the crèche while she worked. There are no creche facilities provided for staff. The number of small children in creches, for instance, increased from 257,000 in 1928 to 5,143,000 in 1934. In addition, nurseries and creches were set up to allow women to attend these courses, as well as adult literacy classes.
  3. a place where young children are taken care of during the day while their parents do something else, especially work, study, or shop: Her son was in the crèche while she worked. There are no creche facilities provided for staff.

    dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/creche
    creche (n.) "Christmas manger scene," 1792, from French crèche, from Old French cresche, creche "crib, manger, stall" (13c.), ultimately from Frankish or some other Germanic source; compare Old High German kripja, Old English cribb (see crib (n.)). Also "a public nursery for infants where they are cared for while their mothers are at work" (1854).
    www.etymonline.com/word/creche
    a place where young children are cared for during the day while their parents do something else, especially work, study, or shop:
    dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/creche
    Crèche definition, a small or large modeled representation or tableau of Mary, Joseph, and others around the crib of Jesus in the stable at Bethlehem, as is displayed in homes or erected for exhibition in a community at Christmas season.
    www.dictionary.com/browse/creche
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