| 单词 | pauper's funeral |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspauper's funeral pauper's funeral n. (also pauper funeral) a funeral for a pauper paid for by public or charitable funds. ΚΠ 1798 M. Wollstonecraft Wrongs of Woman I. v. 124 I have indeed been shocked beyond expression when I have met a pauper's funeral. 1891 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 54 639 The certainty of being able to avoid the workhouse in old age would..increase the desire already so strong to avoid a papuer funeral. 1993 Times Sat. Rev. 9 Jan. 10/1 The Victorians would have called it a pauper's funeral, buried by the parish. Today it is known as a welfare funeral, and it is the local authority that bears the cost. < as lemmas |
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