#284 creche

creche- a day nursery for very young children; a tableau of Christ's Nativity; a foundling home or hospital

C19 from Old French: manger, crib, ultimately of Germanic origin kripja crib

And in talk shows I hear callers say that complaints about creches on public property should be dismissed because the creche is historical and not religious.

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