twopence
noun
a sum of two pennies.
twopences
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pluralof twopence.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I want them when they go to the seaside library and pay their twopences to notice Was It Worth While? in big letters on a purple ground.
From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke
The twopences which used to be thrown to a sweeper will now pay for a ride, and the smallest coin is considered a sufficient guerdon for a service so light.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 by William Chambers
"But you got a good many twopences back," murmured Raphael.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
I was afraid it might be piling up the twopences.
From Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie
Some were broken; and the odd twopences and threepences, wanted to pay for their repairs, were required for the far sterner necessity of food.
From Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
