corrody
Americannoun
plural
corrodiesnoun
Example Sentences
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It’s believed the suspect headed in the direction of Corrody Road.
From BBC
They ran towards Corrody Road where the object was later discovered close to a sports pitch.
From BBC
A corrody was originally a livery of food and drink given to monks and nuns, but the term was extended to denote a daily livery of food given to some person not of the community and frequently accompanied by suitable clothing and a room in which to live.
From Project Gutenberg
There is an amusing complaint in the Register of Crabhouse; early in the fourteenth century Aleyn Brid and his wife persuaded the nuns to buy their lands for a sum down and a corrody for their joint and separate lands.
From Project Gutenberg
There is comedy, though not for the unhappy Convent, in the history of a corrody which, in 1526, was said to have been granted by Thetford to “a certain Foster.”
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