English edit

Etymology edit

crèche +‎ mate

Noun edit

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