noun
Gender
Is almsman gender-neutral? See -man.
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Etymology
Origin of almsman
First recorded before 1000; Middle English almes man, Old English ælmesman; see alms, -man
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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
Thus, though we find in Johnson, alms-basket, alms-giver, with the hyphen; we have almsdeed, almshouse, almsman, without: and many similar examples of an unsettled practice might be adduced, sufficient to fill several pages.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
A little money, kept to give in alms, I have about me: deathsman, take it all; Thou art the last poor almsman I shall see.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
O you, love's mendicancy who never tried, How little of your almsman me you know!
From New Poems by Thompson, Francis
What fugitive, what almsman of any foreign state, can do so much harm as a detractor, a libeller, a scornful jester at home?
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John
The contentment of these almsmen, if content they be, can give him no title to this wealth!
From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony
It was much spoilt in the fifties: the original plan was a great hall, with a chapel at the end of it, and cells along the side for the almsmen.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy
The almsmen of Ely and Rochester have cloaks.
From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
Being once bound thine almsmen for that gift, We are bound to beggary, nor our own can call The journal dole of customary life, But after suit obsequious for't to thee.
From New Poems by Thompson, Francis
To this charity were added various sums from benefactors from time to time, and the number of recipients was increased gradually, until in 1855 there were 100 boys and 45 almsmen.
From Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir
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