Definition of Tenpences

1. Noun. (plural of tenpence) ¹

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Definition of Tenpences

1. tenpence [n] - See also: tenpence

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenpences

tenosuture
tenosynovectomy
tenosynovitides
tenosynovitis
tenosynovitises
tenotome
tenotomes
tenotomies
tenotomy
tenour
tenours
tenous
tenoxicam
tenpence
tenpences
tenpenny
tenpenny nail
tenpercenteries
tenpercentery
tenpin
tenpin bowling
tenpins
tenpounder
tenpounders
tenrec
tenrecs
tens
tensal
tenscore

Literary usage of Tenpences

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1875)
"Which being only just able to prevent, I took him round the neck and kissed his lips instead: and this, it seems, was more to him than the tenpences, for, ..."

2. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1855)
"No doubt they would : but would they learn to calculate in pence, tenpences, &c., when they must reduce the result to pounds and shillings, in order to know ..."

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