Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gold coin of Edward III. of England, and of succeeding kings to Edward VI.
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- noun An ancient unit of
currency of England, equivalent to half anoble
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Examples
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Wealth and honors were his and an English wife, a haughty woman of half-noble family, who completed the work of alienation.
The City and the World and Other Stories Francis Clement Kelley 1909
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Who could tell but that, in time, the great exception might be made for him, and he might be admitted to sit in the Grand Council, he and his heirs for ever, just as if he had been born a real patrician and not merely a member of the half-noble caste of glass-blowers?
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