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单词 halfpenny stamp
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halfpenny stamp
a. With the sense ‘involving the price or value of a halfpenny; costing a halfpenny’, as in halfpenny ballad, halfpenny dole, halfpenny loaf, halfpenny stamp, etc. See also halfpennyworth n. 1.
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1311 in G. C. Homans Eng. Villagers 13th Cent. (1975) 448 De Roberto Crane quia ludebat alpenypricke in opere domini .iij. d.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. l. 293 Ne non halfpeny Ale In none wyse drynke.
?1418–19 in F. J. Furnivall Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 40 Smale Halpeney Loves.
1433 Bridgewater Borough Munim. 12 (MED) For a halpeny corde.
a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1907) I. 111 Hit is ordeyned that þe Cokes frohensfurth make halpeny pyes as other Townes doth.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. iii. sig. E.j I will crie halfepenie doale for your worshyp.
1612 Bk. Customs & Valuation in A. Halyburton Ledger (1867) 309 Glasses called looking glasses, halfpenny wair the groce,..xls., penny wair the groce, iiii li.
1652 Laughing Mercury No. 23. 178 Have the favor to sop his half-penny morsel in her dripping-pan.
1709 Brit. Apollo 23–25 Nov. I sent it by the Halfpenny-Post.
1762 J. Boswell Jrnl. 21 Dec. in London Jrnl. (1950) 99 A halfpenny roll,..which I had bought at a baker's.
1841 E. Miall in Nonconformist 1 242 One may hear timid, down-looking, straighthaired dissenters who speak as small as a halfpenny whistle.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. v. 33 A choice collection of halfpenny ballads.
1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) iii. iv. 423 I lost three pounds..at ha'penny nap and euchre.
1939 P.G. Wodehouse Let. 4 Jan. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 73 I came within an ace of buying Pete two shillings' worth of halfpenny stamps, to replace those I pinched.
2003 S. Mackay Heligoland (2004) iv. 55 They watched them like hawks, so that it was difficult to get away with even a halfpenny chew.
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