hôtel-Dieu

[ oh-tel-dyœ ]

/ oʊ tɛlˈdyœ /

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noun, plural hô·tels-Dieu

[oh-tel-dyœ]. /oʊ tɛlˈdyœ/. French.

a hospital.

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Origin of hôtel-Dieu

Literally, “mansion of God”

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 Christophe
A surgeon, a pupil of Gall's came, and our house surgeon, and the head physician from the Hotel-Dieu.
Father Goriot|Honore de Balzac
Bianchon 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 Balzac
Girdel 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 pre

At the Hotel Dieu they were forbidden to draw more than a ſingle jug of water in twenty-four hours.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete|An English Lady