eighteenpence
English
Etymology
eighteen + pence
Noun
eighteenpence (countable and uncountable, plural eighteenpences)
- The monetary amount of eighteen pence.
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter XXXIII,
- Paddy and I set aside eighteenpence for our beds, and spent threepence on the usual tea-and-two-slices, which we shared—an appetizer rather than a meal.
- 1974, O R Dathorne, The Black Mind: A History of African Literature
- Akrofi, to pay for a cutlass he has bought for eighteenpence to begin farming, agrees to work free...
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter XXXIII,