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baby shower
[bey-bee shou-er]
noun
a party, sometimes attended by women only, for giving gifts to a prospective mother or to a couple about to be parents.
We regularly use the stroller we were given at our baby shower, but the playpen only occasionally.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of baby shower1
Example Sentences
Money is never far from Mason’s mind, and he’s constantly aware of how much he and Yunho are spending: $10,000 a month for Astrid and her girlfriend Claudia’s L.A. rental; $100,000 on the baby shower, including a WeatherMod fee to ensure that the cloud seeding technology company will get rid of the pesky wildfire smoke and leave Mason and Yunho’s backyard to bask in L.A.’s promised sunshine.
Much like the worst kind of gender reveal party, Mason and Yunho’s baby shower has consequences.
Like Mrs. Dalloway, he spends the day leading up to his big party — in his case a baby shower in Los Angeles — reminiscing and worrying.
Former American Reproductive Centers patient Jaclyn Ferber Calonne was at a baby shower when she started receiving text messages about the explosion outside the fertility clinic.
Before the fire, when she was planning her daughter’s baby shower, Garcia managed to scan some photos of her parents and grandparents.
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