liards
- plural of liard.
Example Sentences
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Now, look at that capon; a fatter one never carried its long legs about a stack of corn, and yet it cost but six liards.
From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
She turned her back, throwing into the basin a silver florin, which rang among the liards, and made the poor goodwives of the chapel of Etienne Haudry open their eyes.
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
Now take notice that a denier is worth six liards.
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
There was, in fact, no such thing as order-money, except for liards, and thus it did not apply to sous or livres.
From The Coinages of the Channel Islands by Lowsley, B.
There are also liards and double liards, which are ¼ and ½ of a sou.
From Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France by Holdsworth, J. H.
