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单词 bradbury
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Bradburyn.

/ˈbradbəri/
Etymology: < the name of John Swanwick Bradbury, Secretary to the Treasury 1913–19.
Former colloquial name for a currency note of £1. (Cf. Fisher n.2)
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note1775
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one1846
jim1906
Bradbury1917
Fisher1922
oncer1931
sheet1937
iron man1938
saucepan lid1951
single1961
1914 Punch 21 Oct. 342/3 Not a burglar on our books for the last six weeks..not a coiner, not a note expert. And they had the opportunity of their lives with the John Bradbury notes!]
1917 Punch 22 Aug. 128 Parting with three Bradburys and three shillings.
1920 Oxf. Tracts Econ. Subj. No. 27. 4 The ‘Bradbury’, nominally a pound, and by statute legal tender for a pound of debt, has lost, from its abundance, a part of its purchasing power.
1926 G. Frankau Masterson xvi Cynthia had decided to ‘risk a couple of Bradbury's each way’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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