乾かん所じょ帯たい

noun

poverty-stricken household

An uncommon, somewhat literary term for a household in extreme poverty. Not used in everyday conversation; more common words are 貧乏所帯 or 貧しい家庭.

• 彼かれは乾かん所帯じょたいに生うまれ、幼おさない頃ころから苦く労ろうしたという。

  He was born into a poverty-stricken household and struggled from a young age, they say.