baby farm
- a place that houses and takes care of babies for a fee.
- a residence for unwed pregnant girls or women that also arranges adoptions.
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Origin of baby farm
First recorded in 1865–70
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Historical Examples
She was not a baby-farm after all, and the audition of these squalling nurslings vexed her.
Mr. Punch's Country LifeVarious
She placed the child with a certain woman who kept a kind of baby-farm in the midlands.
A Gallant GrenadierF.S. Brereton