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almsfolk

noun

Etymology

From alms + folk.

  1. inherited from *fulką✻
  2. inherited from *folk✻
  3. inherited from folc
  4. inherited from folk
  5. compounded as almsfolk — “alms + folk”

Definitions

  1. Persons supported by alms

    Persons supported by alms; almsmen.

    • And on the northside of the churchyard there, he founded a faire large almeshouse for an almose priest or schoolemaister, and thirteene poore almes folke

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for almsfolk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA