Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A quarter-crown (quart d'écu), an old French silver coin. The weight of the specimen represented in the above cut is 146 grains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A quarter of a crown.
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- noun historical A silver French
coin worth a quarter of anécu .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And when he changed a teston, cardecu, or any other piece of money, the changer had been more subtle than a fox if Panurge had not at every time made five or six sols (that is, some six or seven pence,) vanish away invisibly, openly, and manifestly, without making any hurt or lesion, whereof the changer should have felt nothing but the wind.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And when he changed a teston, cardecu, or any other piece of money, the changer had been more subtle than a fox if Panurge had not at every time made five or six sols (that is, some six or seven pence,) vanish away invisibly, openly, and manifestly, without making any hurt or lesion, whereof the changer should have felt nothing but the wind.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Sir, for a cardecu he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the entail from all remainders, and a perpetual succession for it perpetually.
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` ` None of note enough to be put to ransom, '' answered the Captain; ` ` a set of hilding fellows there were, whom we dismissed to find them a new master --- enough had been done for revenge and profit; the bunch of them were not worth a cardecu.
Ivanhoe 1892
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And when he changed a teston, cardecu, or any other piece of money, the changer had been more subtle than a fox if
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Captain; “a set of hilding fellows there were, whom we dismissed to find them a new master — enough had been done for revenge and profit; the bunch of them were not worth a cardecu.
Ivanhoe 2004
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"None of note enough to be put to ransom," answered the Captain; "a set of hilding fellows there were, whom we dismissed to find them a new master -- - enough had been done for revenge and profit; the bunch of them were not worth a cardecu.
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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"None of note enough to be put to ransom," answered the Captain; "a set of hilding fellows there were, whom we dismissed to find them a new master -- enough had been done for revenge and profit; the bunch of them were not worth a cardecu.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801
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