单词 | pauper's grave |
释义 | > as lemmaspauper's grave pauper's grave n. (also pauper grave) a grave provided for a pauper by means of public or charitable funds. ΚΠ 1845 C. Norton Child of Islands 113 The Pauper-Graves, for whom no church-bells tolled. 1853 De Bow's Rev. July 105 Licence to starve, to rot, to die, and be buried in a fetid pauper's grave. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 937/2 So emboldened and careless did these body-snatchers become,..that they no longer confined themselves to pauper graves. 1992 A. Gray Poor Things (1993) i. 9 Don't pay a penny towards the burial. If Scraffles puts me in a pauper's grave then Hell mend him! < as lemmas |
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