Creche \Cr[`e]che\ (kr[asl]sh), n. [F.] A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work.
creche n 1: a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for [syn: {foundling hospital}] 2: a representation of Christ's nativity in the stable at Bethlehem