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
- : 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.
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