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Definition of Fanos
1. fano [n] - See also: fano
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fanos
Literary usage of Fanos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in India by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1889)
"Accordingly, if, at the least, 1000 oysters do not yield 5 fanos worth of pearls,
... In some years the 1000 oysters contain up to 7 fanos worth, ..."
2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"... pearls are not found to the value of five fanos, which is about equal to
half-a-crown of our money, ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"By this meanes we sometimes got fiftie fanos of one, one hundred of another; by
no meanes would they endure us to lie at their houses, except one, ..."
4. Lex Mercatoria: Or, A Complete Code of Commercial Law; Being a General Guide by Wyndham Beawes, Joseph Chitty (1813)
"Fanon, or fanos; a coin current on the coast of Malabar, Coromandel, in the isle
of Ceylon ... »The silver fanos are not worth, at most, above 2d. sterling, ..."
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