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Meanings of poorhouse in English

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Facility to support and provide housing for the dependent and needy.

        богадельня
        Usage of poorhouse in English
        1
        He supported almost singlehanded a poorhouse the order had founded in Petersburg.
        War and Peace
        2
        Born in the poorhouse, you're in a fair way to die there.
        Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great Ci...
        3
        Fools to the state school for the feeble-minded, cripples to the poorhouse.
        Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
        4
        Madhouse or poorhouse: is that what his choices have been reduced to?
        The crimson petal and the white
        5
        The distance to the poorhouse was about a mile and a half.
        The Cash Boy
        6
        Just about went to the poorhouse, but I'm glad I did it.
        Death du Jour
        7
        The poorhouse folks are going to ask me what becomes of him.
        Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great Ci...
        8
        I'd hoped he'd fall in love, not end up in the poorhouse.
        A fare to remember: just whistle\driven to distraction\taken for...
        9
        For the first time she looked fully at the Cooneys' poorhouse idol.
        V. V.'s Eyes
        10
        Blathersville wants a Nicholson pavement-itwants a jail and a poorhouse more.
        The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
        11
        I reckon Turner'll know I ain't in the poorhouse yet-ornear it.
        The Voice of the People
        12
        God, that girl will put me in the poorhouse!' She softened slightly.
        For my Country’s Freedom
        13
        Do you remember saying one day that I'd end in the poorhouse?
        Brewster's Millions
        14
        There's no place that I can send you to except the poorhouse.
        He Fell in Love with His Wife
        15
        Decidedly-asmild-mannereda man as ever asked grace at a poorhouse table.
        How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's / And Other...
        16
        Then they take 'm to the poorhouse, where nobody but beggars live.
        The Little Colonel
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        Poorhouse through the time
        Poorhouse across language varieties
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