orpheline
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French orphelin. See orphan.
Noun
orpheline (plural orphelines)
- (obsolete) An orphan.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for orpheline in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Adjective
orpheline
- feminine singular of orphelin