Rial
[raiәl]
Definition
(n.) A Spanish coin. See Real.
(a.) Royal.
(n.) A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth.
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Examples
- The sea, or rather the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent mountains, whose a?rial summits hung over its recesses. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in following the a?rial creations of the poets. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Here were no jewels, no head-dressesno velvet pile or silken sheen purity, simplicity, and a?rial grace reigned in that virgin band. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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