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Definition of Breadline
1. Noun. A queue of people waiting for free food.
Definition of Breadline
1. Noun. A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Breadline
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breadline
Literary usage of Breadline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Trails and New Borders by Edward Alfred Steiner (1921)
"Perhaps following a breadline is a poor way of seeing Europe; but the breadline
is the "beaten path " these days, and one visits the soup kitchens rather ..."
2. In a Moment of Time: Things Seen on the Bread-line of Belgium by Reginald Wright Kauffman (1915)
"There is a nightly breadline on lower Broadway, and an afternoon breadline at
the Knickerbocker ? I know it.— There are five hundred thousand persons out of ..."
3. Natural money: the peaceful solution by John Raymond Cummings (1912)
"We all know that these men are not in the breadline because too much wheat was
... But they are there in the breadline. Suppose that at such time a superman ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"Wormes creep, Birds flie, Fishes swim; and so of parts, the chief of which is
Respiration or breadline, and is thus performed. The outward aire is drawn in ..."
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