foundling

IPA: fˈaʊndɫɪŋ

An abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.

Examples of "foundling" in Sentences

A foundling is a foundling, anywhere in Thorbardin.
But this so-called foundling is a perfect monster of abomination, said Jehanne.
Their foundling was the rightful King of Birnam-and small wonder there were assassins seeking him.
So they call the foundling "Mary Rose" and make a solemn oath to stick together and make a good life "for the roses".
You see, sir, I'm a poor foundling from the Belfast Asylum, shoved out by the mother that bore me, upon the wide wurld, long before I knew that I was in it.
The Magi, to their credit, told Astyages that his dream had been fulfilled, that Cyrus -- as we must now call the foundling prince -- had fulfilled it by becoming a king in play, and the boy is let to go back to his father and his hardy Persian life.
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.
But when his comrade, the true father, heard this tale from him he said to himself, "This matter must have been after such fashion," and he was certified that the foundling was his son, for that he had heard the history told by the mother of the babe with the same details essential and accidental.