drachn.
colloquial.
= drachma n. 1b.
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1935 L. Durrell Let. in Spirit of Place (1969) 31 They..said, with uncertainty—24 dracs—1/–.
1935 L. Durrell Let. in Spirit of Place (1969) 33 There is a good peasant wine... It costs 6 dracks—3d per bottle.
1936 ‘T. B. Marle’ Candid Escort i. 11 ‘Can you give me five drachs?’ he asked.
1969 R. Airth Snatch! ii. 19 I stood outside the court-room in Athens with eight dracks in my pocket.
1971 P. Dickinson Sleep & his Brother iii. 54 I was sitting by the yacht-basin in Iraklion wondering where my next drach was coming from.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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