Lying-in

"Lying-in" in a Sentence (2 examples)

from our first knowing each other, which was soon after my lying-in, we were almost inseparable companions […]

As she lay by the birth-fire, she gazed on the face of the child asleep in the bamboo cradle […] Once free from the lying-in, Linchong set herself to bringing up the baby.

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