"almsfolk" meaning in English

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        "2": "alms",
        "3": "folk"
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      "expansion": "alms + folk",
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  "etymology_text": "From alms + folk.",
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      "expansion": "almsfolk pl (plural only)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And on the northside of the churchyard there, he founded a faire large almeshouse for an almose priest or schoolemaister, and thirteene poore almes folke",
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        "Persons supported by alms; almsmen."
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        "(archaic) Persons supported by alms; almsmen."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
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  "word": "almsfolk"
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  "etymology_text": "From alms + folk.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Persons supported by alms; almsmen."
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        "(archaic) Persons supported by alms; almsmen."
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