“couple、beggar”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

couple-beggar

释义

† ˈcouple-ˌbeggar Obs.
[f. couple v. 3 + beggar.]
A disreputable priest who made it his business to ‘couple’ beggars or perform irregular marriages.
1702Wilmslow Parish Reg. in Earwaker E. Cheshire I. 99 Were lately married by a couple begger.1725Swift Poems, Riddle, No Couple-Beggar in the Land E'er join'd such Numbers Hand in Hand.1744Faulkener's Jrnl. 6–9 Oct. in Lecky Eng. in 18th C. (1878) II. 369 This last term a notorious couple beggar..was excommunicated..by the Vicar-General of this diocese, on account of his persisting in this scandalous trade, which he had taken up, to the undoing of many good families.

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