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pauper

[paw-per] / ˈpɔ pər /


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However, this nomad only looked like a pauper.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

A Nigerian mum might say: 'Do you want to live your life as a pauper forever?'

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2025

He kept a stash of money sewed into his ragged coat and conveniently escaped for a hot bath and a good meal while pretending to pass as a pauper.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2024

For most of human history, identity was ascribed at birth: pauper, peasant, preacher, princess.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2024

Now Miss Rosa was not only an orphan, but a pauper too.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner




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