单词 | gold piece |
释义 | > as lemmasgold piece gold piece n. a gold coin. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > (a) gold coin golds1478 gold coin1533 ruddock1567 red one1568 goldingc1580 pestle of a portigue1598 gold piece1606 yellowhammera1627 yellow boy1654 spanker1663 ridge1667 gold drop1701 spank1725 glistener1818 money-gold1841 canary1851 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 143 Huge heapes of coyned gold peeces, spred here and there in a most large and open place. 1785 Scots Mag. Mar. 151/1 An earthen pot, containing a number of English, Scotch, and French, coins. Eight of them are gold pieces, in excellent preservation. 1889 F. M. Crawford Greifenstein II. xx. 280 Rex took out his purse and gave him a gold piece. 1935 J. Lindsay Runaway 214 Brennos produced five gold pieces... The man stared at them with greedy eyes. 1972 G. M. Brown Greenvoe (1976) v. 202 [He] bought the island for ten thousand gold pieces in the year of the potato famine. 2011 N. S. Berman & R. Guth Coin Collecting for Dummies iii. x. 126 Creating an opportunity for con men to gold-plate the coins and pass them off as $5 gold pieces. < as lemmas |
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