lying-in
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lying-in
▶noun archaic seclusion before and after childbirth.
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press: lying-in Forum discussions with the word(s) "lying-in" in the title: Are you feeling good?/ Are you feeling fine? [to someone lying in the street] filing past a bier at a lying-in-state ceremony He is lying in bed upstairs. noun phrase - what's-the-point-of-getting-up lying in bed syntax: what is 'lying' in 'sausages lying in the sand'? There are Rembrandts lying in the driveway Look up "lying-in" at Merriam-Webster Look up "lying-in" at dictionary.com In other languages: Spanish | French | Italian | Portuguese | German | Russian | Polish | Romanian | Czech | Greek | Turkish | Chinese | Japanese | Korean | Arabic |
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