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(noun) beggar / (noun) a member of a religious order (as the Franciscans) combining monastic life and outside religious activity and originally owning neither personal nor community property; friar


In the winter of 1852, the Alta California newspaper reported that “there has never been so deplorable an exhibition of mendicancy in our streets as may be witnessed daily at this time ...”

—p.41 4. “All That Is Solid Melts into Air”: Gold Rush San Francisco (32) by Fred Glass
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