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Definition of Twelvepence
Twelvepence Twelvepence Twelve"pence, n.
A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents.
- shillings per £100 earned, anyone over the age of 16 and unmarried paid twelvepence and everyone else over 16 paid sixpence. To finance the Nine Years' War... - numbers up to twelve; thus "fourpence", "sixpence-three-****hings", "twelvepence-ha'penny", but "eighteen pence" wouldusually be said "one-and-six".... - about the fact that Oliverpropositioned the two Oldrentsdaughters for twelvepence apiece.) The play's complicationsyield to a happy ending. While Brome's... - each of them to go to the altar and lay down a penny, and so to take up twelvepence to give to the poor. Bowes made a will in September 1562 which carries...
