xc
AmericanEtymology
Origin of xc
(e)x 1 (in the finance sense “without, not including”) + c(oupon) (in the finance sense “a certificate calling for the payment of periodic interest on a bond”)
Example Sentences
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I am enjoying my 55th consecutive year of xc skiing.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2018
On Monday evening, being the last night of the old year, a suitable service was held in church, the subject being Psalm xc.,
From Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission by Stock, Eugene
He says also in the Brutus, ca. xc.,
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony
The note recording the donation of this book by James I. to Bishop Hall, occurs fol. xc.
The Master preached the sermon on the text Psalm xc.
From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox
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