eightpence

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eight +‎ pence

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eightpence (plural eightpences)

(historical, numismatics) A former coin worth eight pence; the monetary amount of eight pence.
- 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
  […] I went for a night to a lodging-house in Bow, where the charge was only eightpence.

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