| 单词 | livre |
| 释义 | ▪ I. ‖ livre|livr|
Also 7–8 liver.
[F.:—L. lībra the Roman pound.]
An old French money of account, divided into 20 sols (or sous), and approximately equivalent to the franc of c 1900.
Besides this livre, called livre tournois, there was also at one time a livre parisis = 11/4 livres tournois.
1553J. Locke in Hakluyt's Voy. (1599) II. 102 Euery Sechino is of venetian money eight liuers and two soldes. 1604E. Grimstone Hist. Siege Ostend 168 A barrell of..Beere was worth twenty foure Liures which is eleuen Germaine Dollers. 1611Coryat Crudities 250 The Liver is Nine pence, the Sol an halfe penny. Ibid. 286 That thou maiest be paide all thy money in the exchange coyne, which is this brasse peece called the Liuer. 1679G. R. tr. Boaystuau's Theatre World 195 Eighteen Livers tornoys. 1702W. J. Bruyn's Voy. Levant xxix. 110 This Amounts every Year to Four Piasters, which make about Ten French Livers. 1746Acc. French Settlem. N. Amer. 13 A Captain here has one hundred and twenty livres a month. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 259/2 They had the conscience to charge an English sea officer..300 livres (12 guineas and a half) for eight days lodging. 1886Athenæum 24 Apr. 549/1 Her son, the Duke of Richmond, had left France, and had thereby forfeited the pension of 20,000 livres allowed him.
▪ II. livre
obs. form of liver, livery n. |
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