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“I’ve seen crèches up to 35 and 50 often, but 70 — that would be a very big crèche,” he told the New York Times.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 7, 2024
It is her description of the nativity scene that has been adapted by most Renaissance artists, and appears today in the countless crèches that abound the world over.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2016
France’s pro-natalist policies, historically inspired by the need to breed soldiers to keep Germany at bay, guarantee Scandinavian levels of spending on family benefits and crèches.
From Economist ● May 26, 2016
There’s a reference to “the goon from the Stasi,” to crèches “heaving with lush lice” and to “posed, high,/pelvic bridges.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2014
Repeated, too, everywhere, were such crèches as the one he now entered.
From The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
