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Breadline

noun
1.
A queue of people waiting for free food.  Synonym: bread line.






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"Breadline" Quotes from Famous Books



... in a valley sets the standard of sobriety, of kindness, and honor. Jensen, the frank and handsome Dane who works for the Germans at Taka-Uka who was in the breadline in New York and swears he will never return to civilization, told me that when he kept a store in Hanamenu, near Atuona, to serve the bare handful of unexterminated tribesmen there, the people imitated him in everything, his clothes, his gestures, ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien



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