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noun
A statute that decriminalizes the leaving of (unharmed) infants with certain designated private persons so that they become wards of the state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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History
A reference to the Biblical story, related in Exodus chapter 2, in which the baby Moses is abandoned by the river Nile and found by the pharaoh's daughter.
