单词 | penny breadth |
释义 | > as lemmaspenny breadth ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > breadth of a penny penny bredea1450 penny breadtha1550 a1550 Wardrobe Acct. Hen. VIII in Archæol. 9 250 Syxe pecis of Venysse reabande, pennye bredith of div'se colours. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V xvi, in Poems (1878) IV. 105 One Day writes an Age; Though a Good hand, pussle an Eye to Read't A Pater-Noster, in a Penny Breadth. a1688 J. Renwick Choice Coll. Serm. (ed. 4) (1777) 580 Nature is most tender of one penny breadth of it. 1775 London Mag. Aug. 422/2 The lappets are tied up with the penny breadth in festoons. < as lemmas |
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