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名詞

lying-in (plural lying-ins or lyings-in)

1. The final stages of pregnancy; accouchement.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Folio Society, published 1973, page 404:

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

   • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 400:

     One of them went to the pail, and finding no water in it, cried out to the others, what must they do to christen the child? On which they replied it should be done in beer. With that the seeming parson took the child in his arms, and performed the ceremony of baptism, dipping his head into a great tub of strong beer, which the woman had brewed the day before to be ready for her lying-in.

2. A period of postpartum confinement, typically a month or longer, formerly common in Europe and still practiced in some parts of the world.
   • 1995, Meredith Borthwick, transl., Many Lives, Kukrit Pramoj, pages 177–8:

     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.

3. (historical) The process of childbirth and the immediate postpartum recovery period of rest and confinement in bed.
   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

     ' […] as soon as she recovered from her lying-in, for I found her near her delivery […] '

形容詞

lying-in (not comparable)

1. of, or relating to childbirth
2. of, or relating to postpartum confinement

アナグラム

• Linying, inlying