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crèche

Audio Help [kresh, kreysh; Fr. kresh] Pronunciation Key

–noun, plural crèch·es

Audio Help [kresh-iz, krey-shiz; Fr. kresh] Pronunciation Key.

1.	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.

2.	a home for foundlings.

3.	British. a day-care center; day nursery.

4.	Animal Behavior. an assemblage of dependent young that are cared for communally.

[Origin: 1785–95; < F, OF < Frankish *kripja crib

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crèche Audio Help (krěsh) Pronunciation Key
n.

A representation of the Nativity, usually with statues or figurines.
A hospital for foundlings.
Chiefly British A day nursery.

[French, from Old French cresche, crib, of Germanic origin.]

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creche

"Christmas manger scene," 1792, from Fr. crèche, from O.Fr. cresche, ult. from O.H.G. kripja, from the root of crib. Also "a public nursery for infants where they are cared for while their mothers are at work" (1854).

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creche
noun
1.	a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for
2.	a representation of Christ's nativity in the stable at Bethlehem

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crèche1 [kreʃ] noun

a nursery for babies whose mothers are at work etc
Example: Some factories have creches for the children of their workers.

Arabic:	دار حَضانَـه
Chinese (Simplified):	（日间）托儿所
Chinese (Traditional):	(日間)托兒所
Czech:	jesle
Danish:	vuggestue; dagpleje
Dutch:	cra
Estonian:	lastesõim
French:	garderie
German:	der Kinderhort
Greek:	παιδικός σταθμός
Indonesian:	penitipan bayi
Italian:	asilo

Japanese:	託児所
Latvian:	mazbērnu novietne
Lithuanian:	vaikų lopšelis
Polish:	żłobek
Portuguese (Brazil):	creche
Portuguese (Portugal):	infantário
Russian:	детские ясли
Slovak:	jasle
Spanish:	guardería
Swedish:	daghem, barnkrubba
Turkish:	kreş, yuva

crèche2 [kreʃ] noun

a miniature stable with figurines of the Virgin Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus etc

Arabic:	مَغارَة الميلاد
Chinese (Simplified):	雕像牛棚
Czech:	jesličky
Danish:	julekrybbe
Estonian:	sõim
Greek:	φάτνη
Indonesian:	palungan (Natal)
Italian:	presepio, presepe

Latvian:	Betlēmes kūtiņas modelis
Lithuanian:	prakartėlė
Polish:	żłób
Russian:	рождественский вертеп
Slovak:	jasličky, Betlehem
Spanish:	pesebre
Swedish:	julkrubba
Turkish:	kreş

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