workhouses
- plural of workhouse.
Example Sentences
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The children came from parish workhouses, some orphans, some just abandoned, and they lived in a dormitory next to the mill and served as “apprentices,” working 70-hour weeks in a Dickensian life of indentured servitude.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022
The Anatomy Act 1832 sought to quell grave robbing and the outcry by establishing a new legal source of bodies; the unclaimed from workhouses, hospitals and prisons, as well as by making body donation legal.
From Scientific American • Oct. 7, 2022
Those who experienced life in workhouses and Magdalene laundries also tell their stories.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2022
“My knowledge of the general condition of the Sick Poor in workhouses is not of yesterday, nor are my efforts in my vocation to call merciful attention to it.”
From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2021
Crossing a walled river of Stygian sludge, we entered a district of factories and workhouses, of smokestacks belching black stuff into the sky, and this is where we found Wakeling Street.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
