lying-in

How To Use lying-in In A Sentence

• On a lunch-time it's never been easier to walk up the Shambles and its lying-in-wait cobbles since the early hours of the morning when balance aforethought may have been slightly influenced by a few tipsy tinctures.
• The Queen had already arrived and came to join the procession as it was borne inside to the waiting catafalque and to the start of the lying-in-state.
• He urged the use of chloroform to relieve the pain of childbirth and deplored the policy of refusing to admit unmarried women to lying-in hospitals.
• Popularly spoken of as the "lying-in period," and medically known as the puerperium, this time of convalescence immediately following childbirth is usually occupied by two important things: the restoration of the pelvic organs to their normal condition before pregnancy, and the starting of that wonderfully adaptative mechanism concerned with the production of the varying and daily changing food supply of the offspring. The Mother and Her Child
• The rite of churching (originally purification, later just thanksgiving), unenforced but very popular, symbolically marked the end of lying-in.
• Adjoudat me à d'aqueste hore, "for at the end of every bridge in Gascony is an oratory, dedicated to the Virgin, called, _Our Lady at the end of the bridge_; and that over the Gave, which passes into Béarn from Jurançon, was famous for its miracles in favour of lying-in women. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
• Women who aspired to social prominence extended the confinement period before birth and the lying-in period afterward to testify to their affluence and physical delicacy.
• The churching ceremony in medieval Europe followed the lying-in period, or confinement.
• He'll have my luck and your looks," he said, turning to Fancy still in her lying-in bed, and she'd laughed contentedly. PAINT THE WIND
• `According to one source, there's a miniature ghost who wrings her hands in the lying-in room. TOY SHOP