Livre
[li:vә]
Definition
(n.) A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.
Typist: Maura
Definition
n. an old French coin about the value of a franc by which it was superseded in 1795: the ancient French unit of weight equal to about 1 lb. avoirdupois.
Typist: Nelly
Examples
- The French livre contained, in the time of Charlemagne, a pound, Troyes weight, of silver of a known fineness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The mark of standard gold, therefore, is worth no more than about six hundred and seventy-one livres ten deniers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Both these districts are, by the additional tax, rated at eleven hundred livres each. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But in France this mark of standard gold is coined into thirty louis d'ors of twenty-four livres each, or into seven hundred and twenty livres. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Millie