| 单词 | beads-woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbeads-woman beads-woman n. a woman who prays for a benefactor, an almswoman. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor person in receipt of relief > woman beads-woman?1465 pauperess1846 ?1465 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 14 Your dayly bedewoman my huswif. 1502 Marg. Countess of Richmond in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. 23 I. 48 Your feythfull trewe bedwoman and humble modyr. 1536 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. i. xxxv. 256 Your poor bedes women The whole convent of Styxwold. 1629 J. Shirley Gratefull Seruant iii. i My humblest service to his grace: I am his beads~woman. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. i. xxvii. 204/1 Ten poor Women called Bedes Women, and Six poor Clarks. 1864 C. M. Yonge Bk. Golden Deeds 194 Asking the Queen to make her a bedeswoman at Vienna. < as lemmas |
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