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orphan

/ˈɔɹfən/ nom A2

En français : orphelin, orpheline

  1. A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
  2. A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
  3. A young animal with no mother.
  4. Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon. (figuratively)
  5. A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
  6. Any unreferenced object.

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We’re getting a little boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia and he’s coming on the train tonight.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 6 · C1
“Yes, of course,” said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 6 · C1
From an orphan asylum!
Anne of Green Gables, p. 6 · C1
Why, it was only last week I read in the paper how a man and his wife up west of the Island took a boy out of an orphan asylum and he set fire to the house at night--set it _on purpose_, Marilla--and nearly burnt them to a crisp in their beds.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 8 · C1

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