(n.) A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) A skeletal sample of 296 individuals from a 19th century American poorhouse cemetery is examined for the frequency and chronological distribution of linear enamel hypoplasias on the mandibular canines and maxillary central incisors.
(2) Drucker explains Freud's "obsession" with having lived in poverty as a manifestation of his "poorhouse neurosis."
(3) It was an irrational and deep-seated fear that an individual and his family were on the verge of being placed in the poorhouse because they lacked any funds.
(4) They were not a non-aligned country, but they were a nation that was supposedly outside of the western world – they were the poorhouse of Europe and so forth.
(5) At a recent psychoanalytic meeting I asked Freud scholar John Gedo of Chicago if he thought Freud experienced a "poorhouse neurosis.
(6) Kenedy's gesture won't put Bressan in the poorhouse.
(7) The hospitals were built for other groups in society and only the poorhouses were open to the elderly.
(8) Secondly, section 41(5) of the Representation of the People Act 1918 provided that “an inmate ... in any prison, lunatic asylum, workhouse, poorhouse, or any other similar institution” was not to be treated as resident there.
(9) New York could no longer serve as both poorhouse and cash machine for the nation.
(10) My elder sister died in the poorhouse at the age of six from tuberculosis.