Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An orphan.
  • Orphaned; bereaved.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete An orphan.

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  • noun obsolete An orphan.

Etymologies

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French orphelin. See orphan.

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Examples

  • I was sad to read about the passing of your petite orpheline, doubly so because the same day I had to say goodbye to my own pet -- my black Lab Huckleberry.

    guetter - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • She called me her little orpheline, or her pretty lamb, and I still remember her voice singing

    Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

  • She called me her little orpheline, or her pretty lamb, and I still remember her voice singing

    Madame Boucher Young Geoffrion 2009

  • I was sad to read about the passing of your petite orpheline, doubly so because the same day I had to say goodbye to my own pet--my black Lab Huckleberry.

    guetter - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Vraiment pour dire que c une maladie vraiment malconnu et sur laquelle on devrait plus souvent se pencher car on ne peut pas dire qu'elle est orpheline elle est plutot sous-diagnostiké c tout.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • And same time we be no egspense, like those li'l '_orpheline_'; we can wash dish ', make bed', men 'apron'; and in that way we be independent! '

    The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884

  • La Nation orpheline: Les Allemagnes en Europe by Anne-Marie Le Gloannec

    A New, New Reich? Craig, Gordon A. 1990

  • "Then my father he tell them that chile muz 'be orpheline at two-three year', biccause while seeming so white she never think she wasn 'black.

    The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884

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