| 单词 | little shilling |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslittle shilling d. little shilling, Cobbett's name for a proposed silver shilling of considerably reduced intrinsic value. Hence used by Macaulay in reference to a similar proposal in 1695. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > shilling s.1387 solidus?a1475 shilling1533 teston1543 twelvepence1563 bord1567 twelvepenny piece1594 sh.1607 hog1673 twelver1699 she-lion1744 grunter1785 twalpenny worth1786 bob1789 pega1790 tower shilling1800 little shilling1826 deaner1839 rogue and villain1857 stag1857 hole1934 1826 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 7 Oct. 94/2 This city [Worcester], or this neighbourhood, at least, being the birthplace of what I have called, the ‘Little-Shilling Project’, and Messrs. Atwood and Spooner being the originators of the project. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 640 Montague, after defeating..those who were for the little shilling. < as lemmas |
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