hôtel-Dieu

[ oh-tel-dyœ ]

noun

, French.

, plural hô·tels-Dieu [oh-tel-, dyœ].

1. a hospital.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hôtel-Dieu¹

Literally, “mansion of God”

Example Sentences

Shortly thereafter, at Hotel Dieu, he became the favored pupil of the surgeon Desplein, whose last days he tended.

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A surgeon, a pupil of Gall's came, and our house surgeon, and the head physician from the Hotel-Dieu.

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Bianchon did not wish to seem as though he were spying the head surgeon of the Hotel-Dieu; he went away.

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Girdel and Bobichel waited almost a full hour at the rear entrance of the Hotel Dieu.

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At the Hotel Dieu they were forbidden to draw more than a ſingle jug of water in twenty-four hours.

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