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tournois

/toor-nwah; French toor-nwa/US // tʊərˈnwɑ; French turˈnwa //

锦标赛,巡回赛,锦标,锦囊妙计

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : minted in Tours, France: livre tournois.

Examples

  • 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.