Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of various coins:
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Examples
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Soup bone was un escalin (two picayunes), but one paid for the soup vegetables, a bit of cabbage, a leek, a sprig of parsley, a tiny carrot, a still tinier turnip, all tied in a slender package.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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They would go to the utmost borders of honesty for a couronne de Brabant, or a demi-couronne, or a double escalin, or a single escalin, or a plaquet, or a livre, or a sous, or a liard, or for any the vilest denomination of their absurd coin, yet I do not believe they would go beyond the bounds of honesty with any but an English Milor: they are privileged dupes.
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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