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(2,710 posts) Thu Aug 21, 2014, 05:34 AM Aug 2014

Mock Beggar's Hall

A mock beggar's hall in the 17th and 18th century meant house with a large, long facade, but was in reality very small, very narrow, so there would not be largesse available to the beggars who came to the door.

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