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eightpence

noun

eightpence

noun

Etymology From eight + pence.

1

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Numismatics Historical A former coin worth eight pence; the monetary amount of eight pence.

  • […] I went for a night to a lodging-house in Bow, where the charge was only eightpence.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
Related terms
twopence, tuppence, threepence, fourpence, fivepence, sixpence, tenpence

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