1.  Persons supported by alms; almsmen and almswomen.

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1587.  Holinshed, Chron., III. 830/1. Thirteene poore almes folke.

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a. 1704.  T. Brown, Lett., Wks. 1730, I. 184. Railing … like almsfolks at the churchwardens.

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1811.  Coleridge, Notes Theol. & Pol., 366. I alone am lord of fire and light; other creatures are but their alms-folk.

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  † 2.  Almsgivers. (Cf. ALMSMAN 2.) Obs.

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1709.  Strype, Ann. Ref., I. 233 (T.). This knight and his lady had the character of very good alms-folks.

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