baby shower

baby shower (in the sense of being showered with gifts), perhaps influenced by bridal shower.

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baby shower (plural baby showers)

1. A party celebrating the pending or recent birth of a child, involving guests giving gifts (typically babycare items) to the parent(s).

Unadapted borrowing from English baby shower.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbeibi ˈʃaweɾ/ [ˌbei̯.β̞i ˈʃa.weɾ]

baby shower m (plural baby showers)

1. baby shower

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “baby”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010