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ˈcaroline, n. [see carolin, carlin.] A name of coins of various countries and of different values; sometimes = carline, or carolin.
1555Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 195 A rounde plate of syluer as brode as the coyne cauled a Corolyne. 1709Lond. Gaz. No. 4571/2 (Naples) A Captain is to receive five Carolines a Day. 1717Berkeley in Fraser Life (1871) 578 The clergy of Ischia get each a Caroline a mass. 1783W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. II. 78 (Sweden) A caroline, (about one shilling and two-pence value). 1865Athenæum No. 1953. 448/2 The forty golden carolines with which the Grand-Duke..repaid the dedication. |