Alms House

n. poorhouse, privately financed home for the poor

Almshouses are charitable housing provided to enable people (typically elderly people who can no longer work to earn enough to pay rent) to live in a particular community. They are often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain forms of previous employment, or their widows, and are generally maintained by a charity or the trustees of a bequest.
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Originally an a house attached to an abbey were alms and food were distributed, they eventually became hospitals.

For a young woman to dream of an alms-house, denotes she will meet failure in her efforts to contract a worldly marriage.
  

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