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- noun Plural form of
threepence .
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Examples
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They expected pennies and halfpennies and threepences and a few shiny sixpences but all the coins were silver.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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Bowey had given them their threepences for the week,
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Dr. Pratt and I sat this evening with the Bishop of Clogher, and played at ombre for threepences.
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To supply the demand, the general court passed a law for establishing a coinage of shillings, sixpences, and threepences.
Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders
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The buttons of his waist-coat were sixpences, and the knees of his small clothes were buttoned with silver threepences.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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On it is placed a brown loaf, with twenty silver threepences stuck on the top of it, a tankard of ale, with pipes and tobacco; and the two oldest servants have chairs behind it, to sit as judges, if they please.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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On it is placed a brown loaf, with twenty silver threepences stuck on the top of it, a tankard of ale, with pipes and tobacco; and the two oldest servants have chairs behind it, to sit as judges if they please.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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The buttons of his waistcoat were sixpences; and the knees of his smallclothes [Footnote: Smallclothes: knee breeches.] were buttoned with silver threepences.
Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker
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To supply the demand the general court passed a law for establishing a coinage of shillings, sixpences, and threepences.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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All this old and new silver being melted down and coined, the result was an immense amount of splendid shillings, sixpences, and threepences.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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