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four⋅pence

  [fawr-puhns, fohr-]
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–noun British.
a sum of money of the value of four English pennies.
Origin:
1715–25; four + pence
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Fourpence

Four"pence\, n. 1. A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.

2. A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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