| 单词 | royal of plate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroyal of plate a. Precious metal or bullion; spec. silver. Frequently in royal of plate: the Spanish coin real de plata, worth an eighth of a piastre. Cf. sense 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [noun] ore?c1225 plate1559 earth1612 precious metal1629 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [noun] > silver silverc825 lunac1386 argenta1533 plate1559 Diana1706 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Spanish coins > silver > real de plata rial1508 rial of plate1555 real1558 royal of plate1559 royal1587 platea1593 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Spanish coins > silver > Spanish dollar royal of plate1559 piastre1592 rial of eight1598 piece of eight1606 royal of eight1606 real of eight1612 rial1640 plate-piece of eight1680 cob1681 cross-dollar1689 duro1777 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 78 Some vse..a pipe of white plate or other metall, very longe, writhen into many boughtes and tourninges. a1589 R. Tomson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1600) 454 The whole quarter of an oxe, as much as a slaue can carry away from the Butchers, for fiue Tomynes, that is, fiue Royals of plate, which is iust two shillings and sixe pence. 1589 C. Ocland Fountaine Variance, Sedition & Deadlie Hate 26 The summe offered or giuen did amount to ten or eleuen Royals of plate. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xi. 219 Assumed viands straight Betweene his greedie teeth conuert to plate. 1671 tr. J. de Palafox y Mendoza Hist. Conquest of China by Tartars xxxii. 567 The buttons are ordinary of Plate, either Silver or Gold. 1702 N. Luttrell Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 185 The Spanish governours..are resolved not to suffer any plate to be brought thence to Europe. 1740 Earl of Sandwich tr. A. A. Barba Metals, Mines & Min. (ed. 2) 59 And find Abundance of Plate in them, which can be attributed to nothing but to the perpetual Generation of Silver. 1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima i. 30 Thirteen Chests of Ryals of Plate. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 267 The superior value, however, of the silver plate above that of the gold, which takes place in all countries, will much more than compensate the preponderancy of the gold coin. View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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