1535–45; named after G. Liard, 15th-century French minter
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He keeps Guatemala "as orderly as an empty bil liard table," himself patrols the whole country on a motorcycle.
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If Claes was from home, Ulenspiegel would ask Soetkin for a liard, to go play.
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 Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
As regards the above, in plain English we may call a livre a franc, a sou a half-penny, and a liard a half-farthing, as current in Jersey.
From The Coinages of the Channel Islands by Lowsley, B.
Now I had paid away my last sous to the garçon d'écurie at the Poste: so I told them pettishly that I had not a liard to give.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
There are also several low points which the river, that is here about three hundred yards in breadth, sometimes overflows, and are shaded with the liard, the soft birch, the spruce, and the willow.
From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II by Mackenzie, Alexander
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