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Meanings of Foundling in English

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A child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown.

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        Usage of Foundling in English
        1
        A hymn from the Foundling Hospital Hymnbook in the programme this week.
        Radio NZ
        2
        This little Foundling, however, was not the only bird in the house.
        The Goat and Her Kid
        3
        Here, Ash March, Foundling, I offer you these gifts for the journey.
        A Cavern of Black Ice
        4
        That building is the Foundling Hospital, a very ancient and famous institution.
        Barbara's Heritage / Young Americans Among the Old Italian Maste...
        5
        There was a new comedy last Saturday, which succeeds, called The Foundling.
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
        6
        The child was left at the Foundling Hospital in my presence.
        Fruitfulness
        7
        Service in the chapel is over, and the Foundling children are at dinner.
        No Thoroughfare
        8
        They then gave the Foundling some food through the wires of the cage.
        The Goat and Her Kid
        9
        I began life as one of the nurses at the Foundling.
        No Thoroughfare
        10
        He was buried at the Foundling Hospital by his own request.
        Holborn and Bloomsbury
        11
        Mrs. Ivy is going to send the other baby to the Foundling's Home.
        A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill
        12
        Adopted, and removed from the Foundling Hospital, a male infant, named Walter Wilding.
        No Thoroughfare
        13
        I am Ash March, Foundling, born in the shadow of Vaingate.
        A Cavern of Black Ice
        14
        Wasn't I brought up to the thrade in the Foundling Hospital?
        Roughing It in the Bush
        15
        She was no longer Foundling, no longer March or almost-daughter.
        Watcher of the Dead
        16
        A dull copper light rising above the fields, not far from the Foundling Hospital.
        The story of cirrus flux
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