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- noun Plural form of
liard .
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Examples
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The Roman chancery had even its regular scale for the absolution of the dead; there were many privileged altars in the fifteenth century, at which every mass performed for six liards delivered a soul from purgatory.
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The people who receive what they earn in a currency they hold in contempt, are more anxious to spend than to save; and those who formerly hoarded six liards or twelve sols pieces with great care, would think it folly to hoard an assignat, whatever its nominal value.
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[Footnote 69: Former weights of France: 1 livre = 2 marcs = 16 ounces = 128 gros = 384 deniers = 9,216 grains.] [Footnote 70: Former moneys of France: 1 livre = 20 sous = 240 deniers or 48 liards. 1 livre = 0.9876 francs.] _____
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat
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The people who receive what they earn in a currency they hold in contempt, are more anxious to spend than to save; and those who formerly hoarded six liards or twelve sols pieces with great care, would think it folly to hoard an assignat, whatever its nominal value.
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The children rolled upon the ground, laughed, and howled, while maman, and bonne maman from the window of her chair, scattered handfuls of centimes, sous, and liards, an old coin of the period that no longer exists.
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She and her mother had a hard struggle to gain a living; they had sunk very low since the fathers deaththeir needlework brought them in barely six deniers a week, which is not quite two liards.
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A few liards had rolled into the mud; the captain in his enthusiasm stooped to pick them up.
VI. Of the Result of Launching a String of Seven Oaths in a Public Square. Book VII 1917
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Grands blancs, petits blancs, targes, liards à laigle, every description of small coin, were now showered upon her.
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