almshouse
救济院,安养院,救济所,救助院
Definitions
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plural alms·hous·es [ahmz-hou-ziz]. /ˈɑmzˌhaʊ zɪz/. Chiefly British.
- : a house endowed by private charity for the reception and support of the aged or infirm poor.
- : a poorhouse.
Examples
I discovered that the cul-de-sac at the end of my road was originally built for a square of almshouses — charitable residences, often funded by church coffers — to alleviate the scandalous poverty of pre-welfare-state Britain.
Elizabeth studied privately with a physician before medical school and between terms observed cases in an almshouse hospital.
With almost 1,200 patients, Laguna Honda Hospital was originally the San Francisco Almshouse, and in a way it still is.
Every county had a free county hospital for the acutely ill, and a free county almshouse for everyone else who needed care.
Once at the wish of a friend I was visiting I went to carry some comforts to a neglected almshouse on a Western prairie.
The poor little dying pauper, lying in her dream at the almshouse, sees the figure of Death.
The most remarkable things that appear here at this day are a mosque, and an almshouse just by it, both built by sultan Ibrahim.
A Hamblyn was still a Hamblyn, though he lived in an almshouse.
I forgot to mention services held in jail and almshouse while in Canon City.