英语词汇“poorshouse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

poorshouse

释义

poorshouse|ˈpʊəzhaʊs, ˈpɔə-|
Also poors house, poor's house.
Mainly Sc. var. of poorhouse.
1745Sessions Papers (Donaldson v. Home) 3 July 2 Samuel Neilson, late Deacon of the Masons, Undertaker for building of the Poors House.1756Bristol (Virginia) Vestry Bk. (1898) 164 Ordered that Stephen Dewey..agree in settleing the Terms of the Poors House.1820J. Flint Lett. from Amer. (1822) 192 Some paupers in a poor's house at Cincinnati refused to carry water for their own use.1870J. Nicholson The Puir's-Hoose Laddie in Idylls 45, I was glad to become a wee Puir's-hoose laddie.1899E. F. Heddle Marget ii. 10 She..is to gang to the sale; but she's no' to gang to the puirs-hoose.1907[see poor a. 7 d].1923T. Johnston Hist. Working Classes in Scotl. 35 There were 30 hospitals or poorshouses from Turriff to the Lowlands.

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