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- noun archaic A
woman who depends on the receipt ofalms ; afemale beggar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A bhikkhu and bhikkhuni, almsman and almswoman, have renounced the
Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001
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'But, sir,' says one poor woman, 'I am a poor almswoman and am kept by the parish, and your bills say you give the poor your help for nothing.'
A Journal Of The Plague Year Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1935
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"But, sir," says one poor woman, "I am a poor almswoman, and am kept by the parish, and your bills say you give the poor your help for nothing."
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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'But, sir,' says one poor woman, 'I am a poor almswoman and am kept by the parish, and your bills say you give the poor your help for nothing.'
A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London Daniel Defoe 1696
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