释义 |
pauperpau‧per /ˈpɔːpə $ ˈpɒːpər/ noun [countable] old-fashioned pauperOrigin: 1400-1500 Latin ‘poor’ - Deliberately choosing to marry in an area full of paupers - Benjamin might just have well have been in Frome!
- During those decades bands of pauper migrants went on the tramp in search of food and a living.
- Mr. Chapman enquired of the Board whether the paupers and children should be allowed to have money in the workhouse.
- Some say Meurent died so abject a pauper that no papers were kept, no gravesite marked.
- The fall was most dramatic among out-door paupers.
- The Latin pauper means a person of modest means rather than some one without food, roof, or clothing.
- The overseers didn't like working the pauper children, and having to beat them to keep them at their tasks.
- There was nothing for girls, only drudgery and breeding, specially paupers like herself.
someone who is very poor |