tournois

[ toor-nwah; French toor-nwa ]

adjective

1. (of coins) minted in Tours, France:

   livre tournois.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tournois¹

1400–50; < French, Middle French tournois of Tours < Medieval Latin Turōnēnsis , equivalent to Turōn ( ēs ) Tours + -ēnsis -ensis; replacing late Middle English Tourneys < Anglo-French

Example Sentences

The siege was costing the English dear,—forty thousand livres tournois a month.

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The Maid's armour was white and unadorned, if one may judge from its modest price of one hundred livres tournois.

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For this he received from the keeper of the war treasury twenty-five livres tournois.

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The same currency continued in use in Florence and Siena, after which curteneys are introduced, the gros tournois being worth 5s.

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Absolution for a priest who keeps a concubine, twenty-one tournois, live ducats, six carlins.

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