plack
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of plack
1425–75; late Middle English placke < Middle Dutch: name of a coin
Example Sentences
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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
For our Lowland beggars—even the gownsmen themselves, who beg by patent—had a louting, flattering way with them, and if you gave them a plack and asked change, would very civilly return you a boddle.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The lassie is glaikit wi' pride; In my pouch I had never a plack On the day when I was a bride.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
I am all in plack insite!" poor Schmucke replied in heartrending tones; "so plack it is dot I feel death in me.
From Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac
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