单词 | bradbury |
释义 | Bradburyn. Former colloquial name for a currency note of £1. (Cf. Fisher n.2) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > English banknotes > [noun] > one-pound note poundOE note1775 pound note1805 one-pounder1811 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). < n.1917 |
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