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poorhouse

(formerly) a publicly maintained institution offering accommodation to the poor

poorhouse

A building, often supported by a community or by a religious organization, that provide housing and minimal services for the indigent; also See almshouse and bettering house.

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No references found			He supported almost singlehanded a poorhouse the order had founded in Petersburg. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context He was too occupied with his own vision, and vividly burned before him the sordid barrenness of a poorhouse ward, where an ancient, very like what he himself would become, maundered and gibbered and drooled for a crumb of tobacco for his old clay pipe, and where, of all horrors, no sip of beer ever obtained, much less six quarts of it. Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context There ain't no difference dyin' in battle or in the poorhouse. The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context			pool-cathode tube POOL-I POOL-T POOL2 Poole Poole, Ernest Poole, William Frederick Poole-Frenkel effect pooling of error Poona poop poop bulkhead poop deck Poopó Poopo, Lago de Poopó, Lago de Poor Clares poor cluster poor law poor lime Poor Peasants Groups poor White Poor, Henry Varnum poor-man's-orchid Pooram poorhouse pop pop action Pop Art pop hole POP server pop shot pop valve POP++ POP-1 POP-10 Pop-11 POP-2 POP-9X pop-down menu pop-up rod POP3 POPART Popasnaia Popayan Popayán popcorn popcorn concrete popcorn noise Pope Popé			poor whites poor whites Poor Wizard's Almanac Poor, Henry Varnum poor-boy sandwich poor-boy sandwiches Poor-house Poor-house Poor-houses Poor-houses Poor-john Poor-man's-orchid Poor-man's-orchid poor-mouth poor-mouthed poor-mouthing poor-mouths poor-spirited Poor-will Poor-willie Pooram Poorams Poorbox poorer poorer poorer poorest poorest poorest Poorest Areas Civil Society poorhouse Poorhouses Poorhouses poori poori pooris poorish Poorland Daisy Poorliness poorly poorly advised Poorly Controlled Insulin-Dependent Diabetes poorly defined poorly differentiated Poorly Differentiated Carcinoma Poorly Differentiated Endocrine Carcinoma Poorly Differentiated Follicular Carcinoma Poorly Differentiated Insular Thyroid Carcinoma poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma poorly differentiated lymphocytic malignant lymphoma Poorly Differentiated Malignant Epithelial Neoplasm Poorly Differentiated Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Poorly Differentiated Squamous Cell Carcinoma Poorly Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma poorly done Poorly educated Poorly educated Poorly Graded Gravel With Silty Fines

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