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Meanings of foundling in English

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expòsit

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

expòsit
Usage of foundling in English
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The risk of the education of the foundling hospital was much less.
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 09
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I was in a foundling asylum, and I was a foundling myself.
The Count's Millions
3
If the man was a foundling, he was one of the first!
The story of cirrus flux
4
When she was building her first foundling asylum, what was he doing?
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
5
But Polydectes the Wicked, knew him, and scornfully he called, Ah, foundling!
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) / Myths and Legendary He...
6
You who had so much love for a foundling-oh ,Godbless you!
David Lockwin—The People's Idol
7
Wendy brought me in from the cold all those years ago, a foundling.
Hook
8
It's the fact that he's a foundling that is deeply shocking.
The Guardian
9
The feeding of this foundling was in keeping with its antecedents.
The Settler and the Savage
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We will say that it was a foundling, left in the church porch.
The lady elizabeth
11
And he ordered my brother Jacques to roll the foundling ahead of us.
Original Short Stories — Volume 05
12
Go to your foundling, whoever he is; and look after him.
Major Barbara
13
Some connection between these sounds and the foundling was naturally suspected.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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Of course, legally, you are entitled to send the foundling to the workhouse.
Won from the Waves
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She removed her foundling's dress and tugged the unfamiliar garments over her body.
The story of cirrus flux
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Nothing now remains, but that I review my positions concerning the foundling hospital.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06 ...
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