foundling

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Noun

foundling (plural foundlings)

1. An abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.

Translations

• French: enfant trouvé
• German: Findelkind
• Italian: trovatello
• Portuguese: exposto, abandonado
• Russian: найдёныш
• Spanish: expósito (dated)

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