eightpenny
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]eightpenny (not comparable)
- Having a value or cost of eightpence.
- 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXVII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
- In the eightpenny dormitories the beds are comfortable, but there are so many of them (as a rule at least forty to a room), and so close together, that it is impossible to get a quiet night.