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Definition of Tenpences
1. tenpence [n] - See also: tenpence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenpences
Literary usage of Tenpences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1875)
"Which being only just able to prevent, I took him round the neck and kissed his
lips instead: and this, it seems, was more to him than the tenpences, for, ..."
2. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1855)
"No doubt they would : but would they learn to calculate in pence, tenpences,
&c., when they must reduce the result to pounds and shillings, in order to know ..."
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