creche

Examples

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• So it is around the child, like the figures in a creche, that adults construct a private utopia in the home.

  Academic text (1990)

• The creche figures in the garden stared out with their hooded eyes, their skins streaked with soot and rain.

  Fiction book (1999)

• On one side, there was a creche, and on the other, a snow scene with children playing.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The Jesus doll in the creche, that was what she wanted.

  Fiction book (1999)

• After all, at midnight Mass, it was not Santa in the creche we knelt before, but the baby Jesus in His manger.

  Blog text (12)

• I remembered the creche, the detail, all the animals carefully emplaced for a perfectly balanced effect around the manger.

  Fiction book (1997)

• There was a tiny creche nestled in cotton wadding on the varnished windowsill as well.

  Fiction book (1996)

• There were bows on the lampposts and a big creche to welcome you into town, and folks were hustling and bustling about with packages.

  Fiction book (1997)

• She went into the ivy bed and turned among the creche figures, which were covered with soot—it was May.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Some devout Christians believe that the creche should be placed only in reverential settings, such as a church or perhaps a private home; they do not countenance its use as an aid to the commercialization of Christ's birthday.

  Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

N

nativity scene

vscreche

9 3.9

A model with small figures showing the birth of Jesus at Christmas

focuses on the stable at Bethlehem as the specific setting of the birth

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Etymology