NOUN
- a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for
How To Use foundling hospital In A Sentence
- Though called a foundling hospital, it is in reality a general receptacle for all children, who are received up to a certain age, without exception, it being left entirely to the option of the parent to state their names and condition, and to contribute or not, to the future support of the child. A Journey in Russia in 1858
- The Foundling Hospital was, apart from anything else, an exceptionally slick operation.
