elevenpence
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]elevenpence (countable and uncountable, plural elevenpences)
- (UK, obsolete) the value of eleven old pennies
- 1915, Caradoc Evans, “A Heifer without Blemish”, in My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales[1], New York: Boni & Liveright, published 1918, page 35:
- Now the dealer was a young man, who did not know the ways of Castellybryn, and he was aware that the first dealer was a big buyer and a cunning bargainer; so he purchased the butter for elevenpence farthing a pound, being a farthing a pound above the market price of that day.