noun
Gender
Is almsman gender-neutral? See -man.
Etymology
Origin of almsman
First recorded before 1000; Middle English almes man, Old English ælmesman; see alms, -man
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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