hôtel-Dieu

• hotel-Dieu

Borrowed from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

hôtel-Dieu (plural hôtels-Dieu)

1. (historical) The chief hospital in a French city.
   • 2017, Alison Forrestal, Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform:

     When she arrived in each town, she checked whether a Hôtel-Dieu existed, and visited the five that she found.

• A Glossary of Ecclesiastical Terms‎, 1972, page 240

Literally, “hostel [of] God”, such hospitals usually being run by religious orders.

• IPA^(key): /o.tɛl.djø/

hôtel-Dieu m (plural hôtels-Dieu)

1. (historical) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• “hôtel-Dieu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.