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单词 pistole
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pistolen.

Brit. /ˈpɪstəʊl/, /pɪˈstəʊl/, U.S. /pəˈstoʊl/
Forms: 1500s–1600s 1900s– pistol, 1500s– pistole, 1600s pistool, 1600s–1700s pistoll; also Scottish pre-1700 pestole, pre-1700 pistul.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pistole.
Etymology: < Middle French, French pistole gold coin (1576), Spanish or Italian coin (c1619), of uncertain origin: perhaps a transferred use of pistole pistol n., or perhaps shortened < pistolet pistolet n.2 Compare Italian pistola Spanish coin worth two escudos (1602), German Pistole German coin based on Spanish currency (a1575; now historical). Compare earlier pistolet n.2The coin was not known by a corresponding name in Spanish.
Now historical.
A Spanish gold double-escudo dating from the 1530s and surviving into the 19th cent.; (also) any of various coins derived from or resembling this from the 17th and 18th centuries, esp. the louis d'or issued in 1640 (during the reign of Louis XIII), an Irish coin issued in 1642–3 (in the reign of Charles II), and the Scottish twelve pound piece issued in 1701 (during the reign of William III).
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > European gold coins
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1592 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 127 One peece of gold..to the value of vjs wch is called a pistole.
1594 T. Nashe Christs Teares (new ed.) Ep. to Rdr. Great pieces of gold, such as double Pistols and Portugues.
1643 Declar. Commons conc. Rebellion in Ireland 49 Fourteene peeces of eight, and a double Pistoll.
1678 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 1005 Who both have commonly sold their Glasses at the rate of a Pistol (i.e. about 17 shillings and six pence) the foot.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 5 Instead of 25 Pistoles formerly allowed to each Member.
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) ix. 255 Ten skillen and ane penny, three of which, when put together, make thirty skillens, which is a pistoll.
1819 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. iii. 69 Only think of the Chancellor's sending the President a pistole to pay the postage of his letters.
1898 G. B. Rawlings Story Brit. Coinage 189 The last Scottish gold coins, the twelve- and six-pound pieces Scots, sometimes called pistoles and half pistoles..minted from gold imported from Africa by the Darien Co..1701.
1967 D. L. Thomas Plungers & Peacocks i. 17 The medium of exchange consisted of guineas, doubloons, pistols—all minted in foreign treasuries.
1998 Coin News May 40/1 One of Jefferson's law clients paid a long overdue bill in 1770 with a collection of Portuguese ‘half Joes’ and moidores, Spanish doubloons and pistoles, and some English halfcrowns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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