workhouse
The origin and history of workhouse.
Etymology
From Old English "weorchūs," literally "work house" — a building for manufacturing or, later, for housing the poor who worked there.
The origin and history of workhouse.
From Old English "weorchūs," literally "work house" — a building for manufacturing or, later, for housing the poor who worked there.
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