Timeline for What's a word that means "once rich but now poor"?
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| Jan 27, 2023 at 11:07 | comment | added | BoldBen | @Martino I disagree. You can describe people of any social standing as 'distressed' in this sense but it does imply that they were formally wealthier than they were. You could talk about 'a distressed stonemason' for example, either because the work had dried up or he had been injured but you couldn't really describe a person who was born in poverty and had never managed to get out of that state as 'distressed'. | |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 16:56 | comment | added | Martino | This is not right in the sense that 'distressed' only expresses the 'poor' part. To mean 'poor but formerly rich', you cannot omit the 'gentlefolk' part. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 23:57 | history | answered | BoldBen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |