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单词 penny breadth
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penny breadth
penny breadth n. Obsolete the size or breadth of a penny.
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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.
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