bread line/breadline, backfire, lineal, ancestry, lineage. On the door leading to the company’s atelier is a family tree tracing Cadolle’s lineage from its founder to its current chief executives.Credit...

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Cadolle’s lingerie can be made in myriad colors. Americans prefer black and nude; French customers favor more vibrant shades.Credit...Lucie Cipolla for The New York Times

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On the door leading to the company’s atelier is a family tree tracing Cadolle’s lineage from its founder to its current chief executives.Credit...Lucie Cipolla for The New York Times

breadline

noun

UK 

 /ˈbred.laɪn/ US 

 /ˈbred.laɪn/

breadline noun (INCOME)

 the breadline [ S ] UK

 

the level of income people have when they are extremely poor:

Most students are on/close to/below the breadline.

breadline noun (GROUP)

 

[ C ] US

a group of people waiting outside a particular building to be given food:

You'll see breadlines outside many New York churches at lunchtime.

(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus からの breadline の定義 © Cambridge University Press)

breadline | ビジネス英語

breadline

noun [ C ]

 UK

UK 

 /ˈbredlaɪn/ US 

 the breadline

 

the level of income someone has when they are very poor, with only just enough money to buy food, pay their rent, etc.:

Far too many are surviving just above the breadline.

on/close to/below the breadline

(Cambridge ビジネス英語辞典 からの breadline の定義 © Cambridge University Press)

breadlineの例

breadline

I do not say that we are reduced to the breadline, but the allowance no longer covers the use of the charter flights.

Hansard archive

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Most of the people who would benefit—though not all—from the £2¼ billion back in their pockets would spend it, because they are living on the breadline.

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 からHistorical Pictures

2013年10月26日 · 

"There's no way like the American Way", a breadline during the Louisville Flood in 1937, by Margaret Bourke-White.

lineage^１

音節lin・e・age 発音記号/líniɪdʒ/音声を聞く

【名詞】【不可算名詞】

[また a lineage] 血統，系統; 家柄.

用例

a man of good lineage 家柄のよい人.

［LINE^１+‐AGE］

an·ces·try (ăn'sĕs'trē)

n., pl., -tries.

1. Ancestral descent or lineage.
2. Ancestors considered as a group.

[Middle English auncestrie, alteration (influenced by auncestre) of Old French ancesserie, from ancessour, ancestor, from Latin antecessor. See ancestor.]

lineal	(adjective) In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
Synonyms:	direct
Usage:	Du Bois, the present librarian of Ardis, is a lineal descendant of this revolutionary pair.

breadline
also bread line (brĕd'līn')
n.
A line of people waiting to receive food given by a charitable organization or public agency.