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▪ I. ‖ vellon|veˈʎon|
Also 7 vellion.
[Sp. vellon: see billon.]
Copper, as used in Spanish coinage. Used esp. in the denomination of certain coins, as real (of) vellon: see real n.2
1676Lady A. Fanshawe Mem. (1830) 202 We let our dispense for 72,000 reals vellon, a year. 1681Rycaut tr. Gracian's Critick To Rdr., We were dispatched thence with..something under the name of a Largess, to bear our Expences, paid in Vellion, or the Base Copper Money of Spain. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Money, Spanish Money of Account, is the Peso, Ducat of Silver and Vellon, Rial of Vellon, and Cornados and Maravedis of Silver and Vellon. 1798Malthus Popul. (1817) II. 489 The price of the load of four fanegas of wheat was..100 reals vellon. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 323/1 It passes in Spain for 20 reals vellon.
attrib.1676Lady A. Fanshawe Mem. (1830) 196 October the 14th, the King proclaimed the lowering the vellon money to the half.
▪ II. vellon
dial. form of felon n.2 |