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tenpence

n. 1 (context obsolete British English) A coin worth ten old pennies. 2 (context obsolete British English) The value of ten old pennies.

WordNet
tenpence

n. a decimal coin worth ten pennies

Usage examples of "tenpence".

Sir Conrade, deface our armorial bearings, and renounce our burgonets, if the highest honour of Christianity were conferred on an unchristened Turk of tenpence.

Sir Conrade, deface our armorial bearings, and renounce our burgonets, if the highest honour of Christianity were conferred on an unchristened Turk of tenpence.

I gave him their address, jabbed our card in, paid tenpence or elevenpence to cover the postage, and thanked heaven.

Beef is tenpence to thirteenpence a pound, mutton about the same, bacon tenpence, pork tenpence, chickens four and twopence each.

He owned a paperback copy of the book, bought at a car-boot sale on The Meadows for tenpence.

And then they started taking eight and tenpence from her pay packet each week because she left an hour early.