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louis d'ors

n. (louis d'or English)

Usage examples of "louis d'ors".

She picked up a fistful of gold doubloons and fat louis d'ors, letting them slide through her fingers.

Those large bags on the left of the stern-window locker hold a thousand guineas apiece - they are part of the ship's share - while the smaller bags hold mohurs, ducats, louis d'ors, joes and all kinds of foreign gold by weight of five hundred each, and the chests all along the side and down in the bread-room hold sacks of a hundred in silver, also by weight: there are so many that the ship is a good strake by the stern, and I shall be glad when they are better stowed.