| 单词 |
alms-folk |
| 释义 |
ˈalms-folk 1. Persons supported by alms; almsmen and almswomen.
1587Holinshed Chron. III. 830/1 Thirteene poore almes folke. a1704T. Brown Lett. Wks. 1730 I. 184 Railing..like almsfolks at the churchwardens. 1811Coleridge Notes Theol. & Pol. 366, I alone am lord of fire and light; other creatures are but their alms-folk. †2. Almsgivers. (Cf. almsman 2.) Obs.
1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. 233 (T.), This knight and his lady had the character of very good alms-folks. |

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