a fighting of beggars
Listed in the Book of Saint Albans (1486) as “a Fyghtynge of beggers”.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- historical-source
- Also spelled
- Fyghtynge (1486)
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Beggars
A group of beggars can be called: fighting
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Collective nouns for beggars
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