Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Persons supported by alms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic Persons supported by alms; almsmen.
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- noun archaic Persons supported by
alms ; almsmen.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"That is because they are not the right kind of almsfolk, nor you the right kind of almoners," responded the beggar; and then he repeated:
Dreamland Julie Mathilde Lippmann
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The chapel joins one of the tenements of the almsfolk, and here comes one of the minster clergy every Thursday to conduct divine service.
Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch Sidney Heath 1907
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Leaning back with one arm bent carelessly behind his head and one hand caressing a shaggy hound that pressed against his knee, the boy's far-away gaze was designed to intimate his haughty oblivion to the castle-world in general and the movements of the almsfolk in particular.
The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest 1893
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And I was bereft of a joyful day; for in ordinary she would be pleased that I should be her little almoner, and hand the purses with the groats in them to the poor almsfolk.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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