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Tournois \Tour`nois"\, n. [F., belonging to Tours in France.] A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.
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Usage examples of "tournois".
The standard of reckoning was the livre tournois, which varied intrinsically in value of the silver put into it as follows: Years Intrinsic value of silver 1500 .
France yielded 2,400,000 livres tournois in 1517 and 4,600,000 in 1543.
These buildings cost 63,036 livres five sous tournois, or about 2,600,000 francs of the present money.
But then he explained about all the marvellous things it could do, about tax and so forth-basic rate tax was three deniers in the sol tournois in those days, we didn't know we were born - and so I put it to good use right away.
As the livre tournois, in the fourteenth century, was at the proportionate value of twenty-five to one livre of the present times, it follows that the price at which the Persian horses sold in India was from fifteen hundred to two thousand rupees.
How lonely he became, holding more than two hundred thousand pounds sterling and only God knew how many livres tournois and Spanish doubloons and Portuguese big-joes.