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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Jacques Lemoyne, and situated behind their house; they offered besides in the name of M. de Bretonvilliers the sum of a thousand livres tournois for three years, to begin the work.
From The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Leblond de Brumath, Adrien
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 Lowsley, B.
The gold pieces up to the present in circulation are the pieces of 24 and 48 livres tournois.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
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.
"Then that makes two hundred; that is to say, that there is, in that roll, two thousand livres tournois in gold."
From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de
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