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- noun Plural form of
foundling .
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Examples
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“It’s what we call the foundlings,” I finished, more uncomfortable by the moment.
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Murray Blick is the most obnoxious man Nicole has ever met, but Blanche is so sweet, always bringing the Cooper-Jaffe kids presents on their birthdays and leaving cakes and kugels on Nicole's doorstep like foundlings almost every week.
The Search Susan Kleinman 2011
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Whereas other cities in Europe had homes for foundlings, London did not.
Culture Maxine 2009
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Two-thirds of the foundlings died, which sounds shocking until you remember that nearly half the children born in London at the time would perish in infancy.
Threads of feeling Kathryn Hughes 2010
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Rolling her triple lashed eyes heavenward at the shenanigans of nuns on a mission, foundlings reunited with parents, mistaken identities, lost love, guilt and sin, sin, sin, Charles Busch is his most delicious baring leg in a trim '40's pencil skirt.
Regina Weinreich: Off-Broadway: Love, Loss, and What I Wore, The Divine Sister, You've Got Hate Mail Regina Weinreich 2011
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It was thought that by having a hospital for foundlings society would be seen to be condoning loose morals; because most of the children were born to unmarried mothers.
Culture Maxine 2009
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Rolling her triple lashed eyes heavenward at the shenanigans of nuns on a mission, foundlings reunited with parents, mistaken identities, lost love, guilt and sin, sin, sin, Charles Busch is his most delicious baring leg in a trim '40's pencil skirt.
Regina Weinreich: Off-Broadway: Love, Loss, and What I Wore, The Divine Sister, You've Got Hate Mail Regina Weinreich 2011
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The first person McCarthy called upon this stunning discovery was Constance, because of her work with foundlings.
Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010
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Whereas other cities in Europe had homes for foundlings, London did not.
May 2007 Maxine 2007
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It was thought that by having a hospital for foundlings society would be seen to be condoning loose morals; because most of the children were born to unmarried mothers.
May 2007 Maxine 2007
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