An English name for the French coin called écu: see écu, n., escu, n. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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释义 | society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > French coins > silver (10) scutec1400 An English name for the French coin called écu: see écu, n., escu, n. Obsolete exc. Historical. shieldc1405 Used to render Old French escu as the name of a coin: see écu, n. Cf. scute, n.1 1. Obsolete. rare. tracent1524 In France: a type of silver coin (see etymology). French crown1542 An English name for: the écu, a French gold coin of the 15th and 16th centuries, with a value of four English shillings (see écu, n., escu, n.)… franc1603 Originally: a gold coin used in medieval France and equivalent in value to twenty sols or one livre tournois, created under an ordinance of John… cardecu1605 An English name for: the quart d'écu, a French silver coin worth a quarter of the écu, or 15 sous tournois. escuc1663 target1671 A piece of money: apparently a scudo, an écu. silver lewis1689 = louis d'or, n. Also †silver lewis: the French écu of the 17–18th centuries. écu1704 A French silver coin; commonly regarded as equivalent to the English ‘crown’. Used in 19th-century France as a name for the five-franc piece. |
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