louis d'or

American  

[loo-ee dawr, lwee dawr] / ˌlu i ˈdɔr, lwi ˈdɔr /

noun

plural

louis d'or

1. a former gold coin of France, issued from 1640 to 1795; pistole.

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louis d'or British  

/ lwi dɔr, ˌluːɪ ˈdɔː /

noun

1. a former French gold coin worth 20 francs

2. an old French coin minted in the reign of Louis XIII

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Etymology

Origin of louis d'or

First recorded in 1680–90; from French: literally, “Louis of gold”; named after Louis XIII

Example Sentences

For this play the writer received one hundred and fifty louis d'or.

From The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Goldoni, Carlo

The ducat was a gold piece as large as one of our old louis d'or, but only half as thick.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de

Her vexation was increased when Romulus called out,— "Mamma, but did you not tell us that you never play; will you give us a louis d'or for that?"

From Hania by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

The daric is equal to about a guinea or a louis d'or of our time, as the Chevalier de Jaucourt very well observes, and not ten francs, as Rollin says.

From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)

By the edict of May of the same year their equivalence was raised 20 per cent.—the louis d'or to 24 livres, the louis d'argent to 6 livres.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur