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单词 brabant
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brabantn.

Brit. /brəˈbant/, U.S. /brəˈbænt/
Etymology: < the name of the Duchy of Brabant. As applied to a coin, the word is a mistranslation of a passage in Hemingburgh (see first quot.), where Brabantium is not a noun, but an adjective agreeing with scaldingorum.
A base coin of Flemish manufacture circulated in England in the 13th cent.
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c1350 W. Hemingburgh Chronicon (1849) II. 187 Mercatores enim alienigenæ introduxerant in Angliam monetas..pessimi metalli, pollardorum, crocardorum, scaldingorum Brabantium, aquilarum..et aliorum diversorum nominum.]
1840 R. Ruding Ann. Coinage Great Brit. (ed. 3) I. 386 These coins were..distinguished by the names of Pollards, Crocards, Scaldings, Brabants, Eagles.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. 178 Scaldings, Brabants, Eagles.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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