Definition of "workhouses" []

• Plural form of workhouse. (noun)

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• "It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul."
• "For the nation erects huge buildings falsely called workhouses, tremendous institutions called prisons."
• "Capping housing benefit is NOT condemning people to "workhouses" or "attacking the poor"."