hôtel-Dieu
[oh-tel-dyœ]
- a hospital.
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Origin of hôtel-Dieu
literally, mansion of God
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He got the native of Cantal into the Hotel-Dieu, where he took the greatest care of him.
The Atheist's MassHonore de Balzac
At the Hotel-Dieu there is a Sallambier ward which perpetuates his memory.
BalzacFrederick Lawton
And the devout sisters of the Hotel-Dieu, not fearing death, worked piously and humbly, not out of regard for any worldly honour.
The Great Pestilence (A.D. 1348-9)Francis Aidan Gasquet
The prelate's three hundred thousand livres were devoted to the internal repairs of the Hotel-Dieu.
A Popular History of France From The Earliest TimesFrancois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
A surgeon, a pupil of Gall's came, and our house surgeon, and the head physician from the Hotel-Dieu.
Father GoriotHonore de Balzac