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Foundling hospital   /fˈaʊndlɪŋ hˈɑspˌɪtəl/   Listen
Foundling hospital

noun
1.
A hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for.  Synonym: creche.






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"Foundling hospital" Quotes from Famous Books



... my head in the low doorways which I can't get used to, and as ill-luck will have it my head aches hellishly; I have migraine and influenza. In one hut a little girl of nine years old, boarded out from the foundling hospital, wept bitterly because all the other little girls in the hut were Mihailovnas while she was called Lvovna after her godfather. I said call yourself Mihailovna. They were all highly delighted, and began thanking me. That's what's called making friends ...
— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov



Words linked to "Foundling hospital" :   hospital, creche, infirmary



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