The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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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
In crèches, the maximum ratio is five infants or eight toddlers per adult.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2017
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
Up to the age of two years the infants of parents too poor to watch over their offspring in the daytime are admitted into the crèches.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
