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  • noun Plural form of layette.

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Examples

  • The sewing group currently donates "layettes," or baby baskets, to Vail Valley Medical Center and St. Anthony's Summit Medical Center.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories By CAITLIN ROW summit daily news 2010

  • The sewing group currently donates "layettes," or baby baskets, to Vail Valley Medical Center and St. Anthony's Summit Medical Center.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories By CAITLIN ROW summit daily news 2010

  • The sewing group currently donates "layettes," or baby baskets, to Vail Valley Medical Center and St. Anthony's Summit Medical Center.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories By CAITLIN ROW summit daily news 2010

  • Bertha Landsman, a public health nurse trained in New York, followed in the footsteps of Kaplan and Landy; she sought to reduce the soaring infant mortality rates that then obtained in Palestine by offering free layettes and pasteurized milk to parents who gave birth in Rothschild Hospital as well as by improving sanitary conditions at childbirth by educating midwives.

    Zionism in the United States. 2009

  • I'm talking about the luxury strollers and designer layettes that ultimately give way to $100 toddler jeans, homemade baby food delivery services, parenting coaches and preschool scouts.

    Heather Cabot: Why You Don't Need That $800 Stroller 2008

  • Think of all of those fancy "must-have" strollers, diaper wipe warmers and designer layettes and it isn't difficult to comprehend that figure.

    Heather Cabot: The Baby Planners 2008

  • But children in the unoccupied part of France needed milk, layettes, and vitamins.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • There he saw baby clothes, books, and layettes "all new or nearly new and stacked floor to ceiling."

    Lunch at Michael's with Ken Burns 2007

  • I've mentioned in other posts that I joned the American Legion Women's Auxiliary here, which has helped the CASA midwifery program in such areas as providing baby layettes for the midwifes to take out into the rural areas.

    Let Me Hear Your Opinion 2005

  • At Another Way, teens and women who have an unplanned pregnancy are offered formula, diapers, layettes, etc. as they learn the skills of managing their life with finances, budget and spiritual tutoring.

    Sale Of Joel Madden Nicole Richie Baby Shower Photos Benefit Richie/Madden Foundation 2007

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