crèche

The group of babies is called a crèche.

From NewsForKids.net ● May 7, 2024

In the end, because their daughter then did not settle in crèche they found a childminder.

From BBC ● May 10, 2023

“The Vatican’s Embarrassing SciFi Crèche,” read a headline in the conservative Catholic Herald, which like many conservative outlets and commentators, condemned the crèche.

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2020

Eighteenth-century terra-cotta angels in silk robes deck the tree’s boughs, and an elaborate crèche re-creating the bustle of life in the port city of Naples sprawls at its base.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2018

There, a blur in the left, is a crèche worker.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

“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

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

My crèches were more in the little shed vein; one year I added a thatched roof made out of stalks of straw.

From Slate ● Dec. 21, 2011

In the chateaux of the South of France crèches are still exhibited, and crèche suppers given to the poorer neighbours, and to some of the rich, who are placed at a table "above the salt."

From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson