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foundling hospital

noun

  1. an institutional home for foundlings.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of foundling hospital1

First recorded in 1750–60

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Example Sentences

The Foundling Hospital is another of the public institution of which the people are justly proud.

To such we leave them, and follow where the author leads us, to his next resource, the Foundling Hospital.

Hidden it, left it somewhere on the road in the lost property office or at a foundling hospital?

Brier got him at the foundling hospital when he went to sell his wheat to the city.

And in the morning they'll take me to the Foundling Hospital.

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