Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A child brought up in a charity-school or on a charitable foundation.
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Examples
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She had been the orphan, the charity-child, and now --
Arabella 1907
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For, how often have I heard the unfortunate working man lectured, as if he were a little charity-child, humid as to his nasal development, strictly literal as to his Catechism, and called by
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841
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