hôtel-Dieu
[ oh-tel-dyœ ]
noun,plural hô·tels-Dieu [oh-tel-dyœ]. /oʊ tɛlˈdyœ/. French.
a hospital.
Origin of hôtel-Dieu
1Literally, “mansion of God”
Words Nearby hôtel-Dieu
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How to use hôtel-Dieu in a sentence
Shortly thereafter, at Hotel Dieu, he became the favored pupil of the surgeon Desplein, whose last days he tended.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheA surgeon, a pupil of Gall's came, and our house surgeon, and the head physician from the Hotel-Dieu.
Father Goriot | Honore de BalzacBianchon did not wish to seem as though he were spying the head surgeon of the Hotel-Dieu; he went away.
The Atheist's Mass | Honore de BalzacGirdel and Bobichel waited almost a full hour at the rear entrance of the Hotel Dieu.
The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II (of 2) | Alexandre Dumas preAt the Hotel Dieu they were forbidden to draw more than a ſingle jug of water in twenty-four hours.
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