lying-in
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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
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
From the Norths' lying-in, the two-part film shifts somberly to a different sort of hospital: one for advanced-cancer patients.
From Time Magazine Archive
The large lying-in cast of Life Begins emphasizes the predicament of its most pathetic member, Grace Sutton.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the ram-god and the goddess Hathor lead the queen into the lying-in chamber; another goddess supports the queen during the birth.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
