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almshouse
[ ahmz-hous ]
noun
- a house endowed by private charity for the reception and support of the aged or infirm poor.
- (formerly) a poorhouse.
almshouse
/ ˈɑːmzˌhaʊs /
noun
- history a privately supported house offering accommodation to the aged or needy
- another name for poorhouse
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Word History and Origins
Origin of almshouse1
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Example Sentences
With almost 1,200 patients, Laguna Honda Hospital was originally the San Francisco Almshouse, and in a way it still is.
Every county had a free county hospital for the acutely ill, and a free county almshouse for everyone else who needed care.
Once at the wish of a friend I was visiting I went to carry some comforts to a neglected almshouse on a Western prairie.
The poor little dying pauper, lying in her dream at the almshouse, sees the figure of Death.
The most remarkable things that appear here at this day are a mosque, and an almshouse just by it, both built by sultan Ibrahim.
A Hamblyn was still a Hamblyn, though he lived in an almshouse.
I forgot to mention services held in jail and almshouse while in Canon City.
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