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tournois

[ toor-nwah; French toor-nwa ]

adjective

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

    livre tournois.



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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
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Example Sentences

The siege was costing the English dear,—forty thousand livres tournois a month.

The Maid's armour was white and unadorned, if one may judge from its modest price of one hundred livres tournois.

For this he received from the keeper of the war treasury twenty-five livres tournois.

The same currency continued in use in Florence and Siena, after which curteneys are introduced, the gros tournois being worth 5s.

Absolution for a priest who keeps a concubine, twenty-one tournois, live ducats, six carlins.

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