noun
(also almoin)
historical = frankalmoign . Sometimes in the fuller form "free almoign" (formerly also, in Scots and northern English, in the plural form free almons).
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Robert Mannyng (d. c1338), poet and historian. From Anglo-Norman almon, almoine, almoigne, variants of almoisne, almosne alms, tenure by divine service, frankalmoign.
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