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spade guinea

noun

  1. history a guinea decorated with a spade-shaped shield, coined during the reign of George III
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

It did not seem different from any other spade guinea, yet there must have been something peculiar about it.

His dress was plain and rather the worse for wear; but round his neck a bright spade guinea was hung by a silken string.

A genial sort of custom, no doubt, but fancy the emulation and the heart-burning over the spade-guinea!

No better epigram could be put in reply than simply putting the Spade Guinea beside the Spade.

Might not that half of the spade guinea give the dwarf some power over her?

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