lying-in
Americannoun
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of lying-in
First recorded in 1400–50, lying-in is from late Middle English lyynge in. See lie 2, -ing 1, in
Example Sentences
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Columbia Women’s opened for business inside a former mansion as a “hospital and dispensary for the treatment of diseases peculiar to women, and a lying-in asylum,” according to its congressional charter.
From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2019
His mother, during her lying-in period in the year 1812, was reading a popular novel, The Three Spaniards, that had as its hero a derring-do lad named Fernando.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reporters dashed through the open door, heard the majority of the scientists declare that the babies had been properly labeled at the lying-in hospital† but somehow switched as the mothers returned to their homes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thirteen years ago Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis obtained thousands of gallons of urine from pregnant women in lying-in hospitals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Singularly enough, not one of the sequences mentioned occurred in the practice of a physician connected with a lying-in hospital.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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