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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Pistolet at 2 sols tournois less than the Escu soll.
From The Coinages of the Channel Islands by Lowsley, B.
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.
From the poor Duke of Savoy not a livre tournois was to be expected.
From Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
The decimal system was adopted in place of the old system of livres tournois, seigniorage was abolished, and fixation of value given to the unit money, and billon money discontinued.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
When the English currency was, in the year 1835, adopted as the legal currency of the Island, it was done by declaring the relative value which it bore in circulation to the livre tournois.
From The Coinages of the Channel Islands by Lowsley, B.
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