foundling

/found-ling/US // ˈfaʊnd lɪŋ //UK // (ˈfaʊndlɪŋ) //

弃儿,创始者,弃婴,孤儿

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : an infant or small child found abandoned; a child without a known parent or guardian.

nounorphan

Synonyms

But not everyone agrees with the use of the modern foundling wheel.
It is true that the parents so provided think more of the twenty-five francs than they do of the foundling.
The little blue placard hung over the cot, as in the foundling hospitals, states the child's nationality: "Moldo, Wallachian."
The Foundling Hospital is another of the public institution of which the people are justly proud.
Much in the same way many a modern maiden places her shame-covered infant in the turn-table of a foundling institution.
Perhaps he himself had been a foundling laid on the doorstep long ago, belonging neither to his mother nor to anyone else.