| 单词 | lussheborue sterling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLussheborue sterling A base coin made in imitation of the sterling or silver penny and imported from Luxemburg in the reign of Edward III. Also Lussheborue sterling. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > false coin > [noun] > specific crockard1300 lushburg1346 pollarda1387 rosarya1387 eagle1577 Leonine1577 morgan1659 rap1724 mitre1749 Paduan1770 Bungtown copper or cent1787 rap halfpenny1787 stampee1795 Jack1851 1346 Rolls of Parl. II. 160/2 Item, pur ce que plusours Marchantz..emportent la bone Moneie d'esterlyng hors de ceste terre, & de jour en autre reportent diverses fauxes Monoies appellez Lusshebournes [etc.]. 1351 Rolls of Parl. II. 239/1 Si homme apporte fause Monoie en cest Roialme..sicome la Monoie appelle Lusseburgh [etc.]. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 342 As in lussheborwes is a lyther alay and ȝet loketh he lyke a sterlynge. c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 74 God woot no lussheburgh payen ye. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xviii. 72 Men may lykne letterid men to a lussheborgh, oþer werse. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xviii. 82 Thus are þe lithere lykned to lussheborue sterlinges. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 317/2 Luschburue (S. lushburue, papirus). a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 11 No luschbowrns but money of fyne asaye. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ss4/1 Lushoborow, is a base coine vsed in the daies of King Ed. the 3. coined beyond Seas to the likenes of English money. 1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 78 in Athenæ Britannicæ III 'Twas made High Treason in K. Edw. 3 Days, to bring in or receive the Counterfeit Money, call'd Lushburg. < as lemmas |
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