foundling hospital
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of foundling hospital
First recorded in 1750–60
Example Sentences
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Eighteenth-century parents adopted Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas about “natural” parenting—cold air is good for a child!—even though he’d left all five of his children at a foundling hospital.
From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019
In this case, our heroine was a feisty little girl, and the place she longed to escape was a foundling hospital in Victorian England.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2015
Be fore he died in 1639, Brother Martin had established an orphanage and foundling hospital.
From Time Magazine Archive
The youth discovers his child in a foundling hospital and steals it; he is pursued by the daughter of a boardinghouse keeper and also by his fiancee.
From Time Magazine Archive
"That's because I love you better than my ease and Horace loves you better than his foundling hospital," replied Mrs. Payne.
From The Wheel of Life by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
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