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penniless-bench en · NOUN

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1. (obsolete, uncountable, usually) A roadside bench.
   • There were quite a number of 'penniless benches' scattered round the country even as far north as Yorkshire, and the name is thought to have meant originally a resting place by the wayside for poor travellers, no doubt in this case ... 1963, A. D. R. Caroe, The House of the Royal Institution, page 9:

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