carolus
Americannoun
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caroluses,
plural
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caroli
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of carolus
1680–90; < Medieval Latin: Latinized form of Charles or Karl
Example Sentences
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Each time he needed money to pay their share of expenses at Katheline’s Ulenspiegel went by night to lift the stone from the hole dug beside the well, and took out a carolus.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
You might take my soft felt headgear and you might find it full of carolus, in the crown as well as round the brim.”
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
But Claes, thinking of the carolus, said: “Thou wast cunning, Thylken my dear boy; she will not be hungry then in her old age, Soetkin my widow.”
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
He would lift up the stone that covered the top of the well and would take out a carolus.
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Charles de Coster
He said to her: “Save the carolus, they are behind the chimney-back.”
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
They say that you will give me back the seven hundred caroluses.
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Charles de Coster
Oh my lady!" cried Deborah, "don't bid me go to the door, I could not if you offered me fifty gold caroluses!
From The Pigeon Pie by Charlotte Mary Yonge
“The old Major is scarcely like to pay down twenty gold caroluses, but if he should, the bay is his.”
From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge
And you must know that I have already had from the mother a sum of three and twenty caroluses.
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Charles de Coster
It is not I that took the seven hundred caroluses, it was Hilbert.
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Charles de Coster
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