🔤 Beadhouses ✨
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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
sadqa ghar, ghareeb khana, yateem khana, beadhouse, dua ghar
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ENGLISH
📚noun
beadhouses
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: /ˈbiːdhaʊzɪz/
Phonetic: /beed how ziz/
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DEFINITION
almshouses in which residents were required to pray for the founder, plural of beadhouse
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
Beadhouses provided shelter for the poor who prayed for their benefactors.
The medieval beadhouses were supported by wealthy patrons seeking spiritual merit.
Historic beadhouses still stand as reminders of past charitable institutions.
Residents of beadhouses spent hours in prayer for the founders souls.
The study examined the architecture of English beadhouses from the fifteenth century.
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