| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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A house where paupers are supported at the public expense; a poor-house. Also a house set apart for the aged poor free of rent. | 1 |
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| “Only, alas! the poor who had neither friends nor attendants, |
| Crept away to die in the alms-house, home of the homeless.” | |
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Longfellow: Evangeline, part ii. 5, 2. |
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