crèchemate

crèchemate

English

Etymology

crèche +‎ mate

Noun

crèchemate (plural crèchemates)

1. a person that one shares a crèche with.
   • 2018, Val Roberts, The Unique Solution, Wylde Hare Press

     “You expect me to believe you have an Exec crèchemate?” He curled his lip and leaned in close.

   • 2019, Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night, Saga Press (ISBN 9781534402980), page 194:

     I put it back in my cubby, next to a chain a crèchemate gave me when I was little and a gingko leaf preserved in some kind of molded crystal.

   • 2019, Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire, Tor Books (ISBN 9781250186454)

     “Lsel has lots of children running around—usually in big crèchemate agegroups — I got into all sorts of things when I was that age.