baby-farm

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baby-farm (plural baby-farms)

  1. Alternative form of baby farm
    • 1883, All the Year Round - Volume 32; Volume 52, page 413:
      Can't send it to the workhouse, you know, or a baby-farm, or a baby-farmer, like that woman.
    • 1917, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, Scotland, by W. L. Mackenzie, page 135:
      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.
    • 2008, Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron Russell of Liverpool, The Scourge of the Swastika, page 160:
      But the 'Children's Home' at Rühen was not the only baby-farm set up by the Nazis.