Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The county poorhouse.
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Examples
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You'd be better housed and fed in any county-house.
Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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She and her husband at an early day opened a manual-labor school, beginning by taking nine children from the county-house, to educate them with their own on a farm near Adrian.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862
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