almsfolk en · NOUN
Etymology
From alms + folk.
Meanings
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(archaic, plural, plural-only) Persons supported by alms; almsmen.
And on the northside of the churchyard there, he founded a faire large almeshouse for an almose priest or schoolemaister, and thirteene poore almes folke
1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC: