hôtel-Dieu

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  The chief hospital in a French city.

Etymology
From, stressing the charitable nature (although hospitals where then invariably religious). The construction, instead of expected, is a relict of an Old French oblique case form in genitive function; another such example is.

Noun

 * 1)  any caritative hospice or hospital
 * 1)  any caritative hospice or hospital