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Poorhouse

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A charitable institution where poor or homeless people are lodged.
  2. 2
    an establishment maintained at public expense in order to provide housing for the poor and homeless wordnet
  3. 3
    A workhouse.

Etymology

From poor + house.

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