| 单词 | fifty-pence piece |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfifty-pence piece fifty-pence piece n. a cupro-nickel heptagonal coin worth fifty (new) pence, introduced in the U.K. in 1969 during the conversion to decimal currency. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > other miscellaneous English coins baselinga1255 scute1472 basel1577 lundress1695 halfling1819 wire money1837 brabant1840 fifty-pence piece1969 twenty-pence piece1981 1969 Economist 18 Oct. 87/2 From this week the new 50p piece will gradually start replacing the old brown 10s notes. 1979 Washington Post 10 July a17/6 The British 50-pence piece has seven sides and is unambiguous. 1986 R. Rendell Live Flesh ii. 24 The room heater could be made to function by the insertion of twenty-pence pieces and the water heater fifty-pence pieces. < as lemmas |
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