tournois

American  

[toor-nwah, toor-nwa] / tʊərˈnwɑ, turˈnwa /

adjective

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

   livre tournois.

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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

Example Sentences

But the project broke down for want of earnestness on the part of the Jersey people, though Sir George offered the then very large sum of 50,000 livres tournois towards the endowment.

From St George's Cross by Keene, H. G. (Henry George)

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 Shaw, William Arthur

Liards of France, alias Grand Doubles, are to go 6 to the sol tournois; but none need accept more than 7 sols tournois at each payment.

From The Coinages of the Channel Islands by Lowsley, B.

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 Lowsley, B.

When the English currency was, in the year 1835, adopted as the legal currency of the Island, it was done by declaring the relative value which it bore in circulation to the livre tournois.

From The Coinages of the Channel Islands by Lowsley, B.