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Poorhouse
Poorhouse meaning
A charitable institution where poor or homeless people are lodged. | A workhouse.
Synonyms of Poorhouse
Example sentences (4)
But when things go awry… the poorhouse becomes home.
Keep ranting Donald - you'll talk your way right into the poorhouse and a cell.
The Poorhouse Road area off U.S. Highway 31 has fiber to homes, as do Ebenezer Road, Georgiana and Chapman, she added.
The marriage was an unhappy one, and it is revealed that her daughter was left as Colonel Brandon's ward when he found his lost love dying in a poorhouse.