Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An infant foster-child.
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Examples
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Both the nurses blushed; Margery at the soft impeachment as she delivered over the minute burden; her daughter in honest indignation at the insulting want of interest shown for her foster-babe.
The Light of Scarthey Egerton Castle 1889
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