plack
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of plack
1425–75; late Middle English placke < Middle Dutch: name of a coin
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Here we have motivation for more than 1 person at a time to visit that old town plack or to walk those forgotten trails.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2016
The scene seemed to open the hearts o' prelates and priors, that never gave a plack to a bluegown before.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
The truth is, that ye're a perfect she Nabal, and ilka thing that takes the value of a plack out o' your pocket, is vulgar, or improper, or something that way.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
Ower braw a purse to put a plack in.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
He vaited ash de wild fox vaits In long-some hoonger noth, He vaited dill de flitterin bats Vere plack on Abendroth.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland
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