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Definition of Foundling hospital
1. Noun. A hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foundling Hospital
Literary usage of Foundling hospital
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Robert Belt (1820)
"ATTORNEY GENERAL against The foundling hospital, TVJ'R. ATTORNEY GENERAL, ...
They stated that the foundling hospital had been established by letters patent ..."
2. London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1911)
"7), whence Guilford St. leads to the foundling hospital (see below). — In WOBURN
SQUARE (PI. R, 28), to the N. of Russell Square, ..."
3. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"Resolutions concerning the Foundling-hospital—§ XXVII. Messages from the king to
the parliament—§ XXVIII, Session closed— § XXIX. Preparations for war—§ XXX ..."
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