baby-farm
English
Noun
baby-farm (plural baby-farms)
- 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.