| 单词 | alms chest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasalms chest alms chest n. ΚΠ 1486 ( in F. J. Furnivall Gild of St. Mary, Lichfield (1920) 19 A certaine almes chest in owre lady chapell. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. The erecting of such alms-chest in every church, is enjoined by the book of canons. 1884 A. L. Alger tr. J. Gautier Usurper xiv. 132 ‘Then they must have gone to the right,’ said the warrior, dropping a piece of silver into the alms-chest covered with a lattice work of bamboo. 1996 J. J. Goldberg Jewish Power (1997) ii. iv. 92 The German immigrant tide overwhelmed the synagogues' alms chests. < as lemmas |
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