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‖ mangour Obs. Also 6 mangor, 7 mangur. [Turkish mangir (Redhouse).] An obsolete Turkish copper coin.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. xxii. 112 b, A Mangor, which is the 8. part of an Aspre. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 293 Sixteene brasse Mangouri made one silver Asper. 1683T. Smith Acc. City Prusa in Misc. Cur. (1708) III. 65 A Mangur is an ugly old Copper Piece. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 67 They have also half Quadrins, which they call Mangours. Ibid. ii. 158. 1696 tr. Du Mont's Voy. Levant xxiv. 329 He made a very considerable Addition to the usual Profits of that Office, by inventing..a certain Copper Coin, call'd Mangours. |