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Definition of Beadhouse
1. n. An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
Definition of Beadhouse
1. Noun. (historical) An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beadhouse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beadhouse
Literary usage of Beadhouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambrian Journal by Cambrian Institute (1854)
"My objection to beadhouse is, that it is an English name; neither can I apprehend
why a Chapel should be called a ..."
2. Records of the Borough of Leicester: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Leicester (England), Mary Bateson, William Henry Stevenson, John Edward Stocks (1905)
"... and the tenement at the corner of the lane in the Southgate leading to the
mill and the Swan Land, and the beadhouse meadow. Box 9 A, No. n (9). ..."
3. Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760 by Richard Pococke (1887)
"... Hospital or beadhouse is said to have been the palace of William the Lyon and
Alexander the 2d, the former having founded here a Convent of red friars ..."
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