philippus
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Origin of philippus
< Latin < Greek philíppeios
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No one, however, seems to have been blamed, and Philip Savoien, her surgeon, was given thirty philippus 'for having treated madame as well as he could, and for having embalmed her body.'
From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Tremayne, Eleanor E.
The States did not welcome this proposal, but voted a subsidy of 200,000 philippus.
From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Tremayne, Eleanor E.
They were "cestracio philippi" sharks, with brown backs and whitish bellies, armed with eleven rows of teeth—eyed sharks—their throat being marked with a large black spot surrounded with white like an eye.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules
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