noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Gender
Is almsman gender-neutral? See -man.
Etymology
Origin of almsman
First recorded before 1000; Middle English almes man, Old English ælmesman; alms, -man
Example Sentences
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Buried Eppifania Cakewood, an almsman’s wife.”
From Project Gutenberg
A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.
From Project Gutenberg
Even before Moscow began threatening to play the economic card, Warsaw's creditors in the West were seeking ways of shoring up their ailing almsman.
From Time Magazine Archive
These cells were open at the top so that there was plenty of fresh air, and if an almsman became ill or infirm, he could hear the service chanted daily in the chapel without leaving his bed.
From Project Gutenberg
What fugitive, what almsman of any foreign state, can do so much harm as a detractor, a libeller, a scornful jester at home?
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