different between creche vs cheche

English

Noun

creche (plural creches)

1. Alternative form of crèche

Anagrams

• Creech

Old French

Alternative forms

• crecche, cresche

Etymology

From Late Latin cripia, from Old Frankish *krippija, *kripja (“crib, cradle”), from Proto-Germanic *kribj?. More at crib.

Noun

creche f (oblique plural creches, nominative singular creche, nominative plural creches)

1. crib, manger [1150 CE]

Descendants

• Angevin: guêrche, querche
• Bourbonnais-Berrichon: écrèche (Berrichon)
• Bourguignon: creiche, croiche, crouéche, écreuche, écroche, queurche
• Champenois: aicroche
• Middle French: creche, creppe
  • French: crèche
    • ? English: creche
• ? Middle English: crecche, cracche, cratche
  • English: cratch
• Norman: créque
• Picard: crèche (Athois)
• Tourangeau: écrèche, éguerche
• Walloon: crèpe, cripe

Portuguese

Etymology

From French crèche.

Noun

creche f (plural creches)

1. nursery (a place where nursing is carried out)

   Synonym: berçário

Further reading

• “creche” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

English

Etymology

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Noun

cheche (plural cheches)

1. A piece of clothing used commonly in hot deserts to protect oneself from the sun or sandstorms.
   • 1999. Martin Windrow, French Foreign Legion 1914-1945, Osprey Publishing, page 43:

     A pale khaki cheche or desert scarf became popular, worn in various ways at the commander's whim - either looped round the neck, crossed on the chest, or wrapped all around the head and neck...

   • 2003. "Outside" Magazine. Outside 25: Classic Tales and New Voices from the Frontiers of Adventure, W. W. Norton & Company, page 14:

     Mossa scrawled his name, pulled his cheche down over his mouth, and actually smiled. ... I wore a blue cheche to filter sand out of the air I was breathing.

Mapudungun

Noun

cheche (using Unified Alphabet)

1. maternal grandfather

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

cheche (ma class, plural macheche)

1. spark