baby-farm

A form of baby farm — An institution that is paid to care for unwanted children, often doubling as an orphanage or home for unwed mothers.

Meanings

nounbaby-farm (plural baby-farms)

plural baby-farms

  1. alternativeAlternative form of baby farm.

    But the 'Children's Home' at Rühen was not the only baby-farm set up by the Nazis.

    2008, Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron Russell of Liverpool, The Scourge of the Swastika, page 160
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    Can't send it to the workhouse, you know, or a baby-farm, or a baby-farmer, like that woman.

    1883, All the Year Round - Volume 32; Volume 52, page 413

    The home may be a large baby-farm and the woman that manages it a large farmer, or it may be a small home and she may be a small farmer.

    1917, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, Scotland, by W. L. Mackenzie, page 135
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