tournois

[ toor-nwah; French toor-nwa ]

adjective

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

   livre tournois.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tournois¹

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

The oldest coin I've got is a French Double Tournois from the 1600s, Louis XIII.

From BBC

The inventory of Bondeville for the same year is equally interesting: These are the goods and rents of the house of Bondeville: £93 tournois; of common corn 30 modii; in the grange of Heaus they believe that they have 7 modii of common corn; in the abbey grange about one modium of barley; in the other granges nothing.

From Project Gutenberg

His efforts to justify the Inquisition were unavailing, more especially, perhaps, because the people of Albi bribed Cardinal Raymond de Goth, the pope’s nephew, with two thousand livres Tournois, the Cardinal of Santa Croce with as much, and the Cardinal Pier Colonna with five hundred.

From Project Gutenberg

The penance imposed on the town was the building of a chapel in honor of St. Louis, which was accomplished in the year 1300 at the cost of ninety livres Tournois.

From Project Gutenberg

The pious Franciscan Salimbene informs us that a hundred thousand livres tournois were raised and Honorius IV. was won over.

From Project Gutenberg