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单词 crown of the sun
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crown of the sun
crown of the sun n. historical a French gold coin widely current in England in the 15–16th centuries, the type of the first English crown (see sense 32b). [After Middle French escu au soleil, escu d'or au soleil type of coin showing the royal arms with a crown surmounted by a sun (both second half of the 15th cent.; French écu au soleil, écu d'or au soleil), itself after escu d'or à la couronne type of coin showing the royal arms with a crown (1397; French écu d'or à la couronne), on which the coin's design was originally based. Compare post-classical Latin corona de sole (1532 in a British source).]
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1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxvii. [clxiii.] 462 The tresourers made redy the money in Crownes of the Sonne, and put it into foure cofers.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxv That the French kyng should paie..without delaie, lxxv. M. Crounes of the sunne, and yerely .l. M. crounes, to be paied at London.
1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat i. i. sig. B2v Present your bag cramm'd with crowns of the sunne.
1773 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria Rediviva (ed. 6) 382/2 It was customary formerly to make the Bills drawn from Amsterdam and elsewhere, on the Payments of Lyons, in golden Crowns of the Sun.
1856 H. W. Herbert Sir Hugues de Coucy vii. in Chevaliers of France (ed. 3) 93 I fix my ransom at twenty thousand crowns of the sun.
1929 Oxf. Poetry 19 Once in a while, but a real rose noble, Golden ram or Crown of the Sun Falls from the matrix.
1995 Sc. Hist. Rev. 74 161 (note) The value of the ‘crown of the sun’ is taken from A. G. Scott et al., Index to the Diurnal of Occurrents.
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