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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They had remitted a portion of the amount; but there remained a balance due of 3,332 livres tournois, which Mr. Patriarche had engaged to remit to St. Malo.
From The Coinages of the Channel Islands by Lowsley, B.
The consumption of bread for the whole kingdom, is two millions of livres tournois, a day.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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
"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
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 Lowsley, B.
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