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Definition of Tenpence
1. Noun. A decimal coin worth ten pennies.
Generic synonyms: Coin
Definition of Tenpence
1. Noun. (obsolete British) A coin worth ten old pennies. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete British) The value of ten old pennies. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tenpence
1. the sum of ten pennies [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenpence
Literary usage of Tenpence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"for sale at tenpence a yard, that would constitute no supply of calico at sixpence
a yard ... that would constitute no demand for calico at tenpence. ..."
2. Schubert by Edmondstoune Duncan (1905)
"Schubert goes to hear Paganini—Songs at tenpence a-piece—Composes a fugue—His
last lodgings—Mortal illness—Friends in his need—Schubert's last letter —In ..."
3. Curran and His Contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1851)
"PS—I will cover this blank edge -with entreating yon to write closer than you
commonly do, when you sit down to answer this ; and don't make me pay tenpence ..."
4. Curran and His Contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1862)
""PS—I will cover this blank edge with entreating you to write closer than you
commonly do, when you sit down to answer this ; and don't make me pay tenpence ..."
5. Two Hundred and Nine Days: Or, The Journal of a Traveller on the Continent by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1827)
"... ninepence; and the franc, tenpence. That the Carline will go as far at Naples,
as the franc in France. Perhaps we may add to this series the shilling, ..."
6. Two Hundred and Nine Days: Or, The Journal of a Traveller on the Continent by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1827)
"... ninepence; and the franc, tenpence. That the Carline will go as far at Naples,
as the franc in France. Perhaps we may add to this series the shilling, ..."
7. Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Typographical by Robert Stuart (1854)
"For every thousand of tiles, other than such as are hereinbefore enumerated, four
shillings and tenpence. The said duties to be paid by the makers. In June. ..."
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