tournois
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tournois
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
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The decimal system was adopted in place of the old system of livres tournois, seigniorage was abolished, and fixation of value given to the unit money, and billon money discontinued.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
From the poor Duke of Savoy not a livre tournois was to be expected.
From Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
Twenty-six livres tournois, or old French currency, were declared to be equivalent to one pound sterling, which was, and is now, the current rate.
From The Coinages of the Channel Islands by B. Lowsley
There was no other sou or livre known or acknowledged in use than the tournois; and the Order in Council did not substitute any other.
From The Coinages of the Channel Islands by B. Lowsley
So that the whole of the money received from France, amounts to about four and twenty millions tournois.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI by Jared Sparks
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