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crèche

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See also: creche and créché

English

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A crèche (4) of Canada geese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French crèche (manger), from Frankish *krippija, *kribbija, from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ. Doublet of crib.

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crèche (plural crèches)

  1. A representation of the nativity scene.
    • 2007, Clyde A. Bonar, Amen, I Say to You, page 666:
      At last, all was complete. The creche at Greccio looked like a new Bethlehem. The baby Jesus would be placed in the manger at midnight Mass.
  2. (UK, Ireland) A day nursery.
    They drop their two-year-old off at the crèche in the morning before they go to work.
    • 2012, Roni Jay, The 10 Most Important Things You Can Do For Your Children:
      If you leave the kids in the creche for one morning on your week's holiday, and they are OK with that, then it's fine.
  3. (historical) A hospital for orphaned infants; a foundling hospital.
    • 1894, Amos Griswold Warner, American Charities: A Study in Philanthropy and Economics, page 272:
      One road leads to desertion of the child in a convenient hallway; another to the creche of a foundling hospital; a third, to a boarding home, good or indifferent, for the child.
    • 1973, Wayne Dennis, Children of the Crèche, page 74:
      In line with this policy, a couple could adopt a Crèche foundling only if one or both of them were Roman Catholics.
  4. (collective, marine biology) A group of young who stay together for protection.

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Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Etymology

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Borrowed from French crèche, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French creche, cresche (manger, feeding trough), from Late Latin cripia (feeding trough), from Frankish *krippija, *kribbija (crib), from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ (crib), from Proto-Indo-European *g(')rībh- (basket, net). Doublet of kribbe.

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crèche f (plural crèches)

  1. a day nursery for small children until age 3 in Belgium (Flanders) or age 4 in the Netherlands, when the children begin kleuterschool (nursery school/kindergarten) or, in the Netherlands, basisschool (primary school, which, in the Netherlands, begins at age 4 since August 1985, when kleuterschool was abolished and became a compulsory part of the primary school)
    Synonyms: kinderdagverblijf, (Flanders) kinderkribbe

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Descendants

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  • Papiamentu: krèsh

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French creche, cresche (manger, feeding trough), from Late Latin cripia (feeding trough), from Frankish *krippija, *kribbija (crib), from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ (crib), from Proto-Indo-European *g(')rībh- (basket, net).

Cognate with Old High German krippa, kripja (crib) (German Krippe), Old English cribb, crybb (crib), Dutch kribbe (crib), Danish krybbe, Swedish krubba, Irish grib. More at crib

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crèche f (plural crèches)

  1. crèche (the Nativity scene)
  2. crèche (day nursery)

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Verb

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crèche

  1. inflection of crécher:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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