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  • noun Plural form of tenpence.

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  • Ive an intellect: a mind and a brain and a soul; and the use he makes of them is to fix them on his tuppences and his eighteenpences and his two pound seventeen and tenpences and see how much they come to at the end of the day and take care that no one steals them.

    Misalliance George Bernard Shaw 1903

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