almsman


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one who begs habitually or for a living

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Thus, of the almsman John Wicking, we are told but one book, a new testament in Englysshe', a possession he took care that he owned but one book, `a new testament in Englysshe', a possession he took care to bequeath to another of little means, 'Doyly the peynter'.
Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists, 2 vols
There could be no mistaking the arrival of the almsman priest.
No sooner free than the nobility dashed to the almsman's wagons where they helped themselves to rapiers, sabers, broadswords, scythes, and muskets.
Pan Tadeusz
If we cannot enrich our almsman with gifts, then we shall endeavor to repay him for the spent powder.
Pan Tadeusz: book five the quarrel
Beside him stood the Bernardine almsman and the Judge respectively.
Pan Tadeusz: book one the manor Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)
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