almsfolk
See also: alms-folk
English
Etymology
Noun
almsfolk pl (plural only)
- (archaic) Persons supported by alms; almsmen.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
- 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
References
- “almsfolk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.