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
Example Sentences
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The sum handed over for the purchase of the prisoner was 10,000 livres tournois, equivalent to 61,125 francs of French money of to-day—about £2400 sterling.
From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower
The sum to be insured is fifteen thousand livres tournois.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
You will also observe, Sir, that when exchange is at four fifths, one livre tournois is equal to fourteen pence and two fifths of a penny, Pennsylvania money.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI by Jared Sparks
The livre tournois could scarcely be called a standard of value, and yet it was that by which the market price of commodities was known.
From The Coinages of the Channel Islands by B. Lowsley
The Normans having sent hither a quantity of deniers tournois, which they are passing for doubles, the Governor is asked to appoint a person to coin freluques.
From The Coinages of the Channel Islands by B. Lowsley
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