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English
Noun
mill-sixpence (plural mill-sixpences)
- (obsolete) A milled sixpence.
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :seven groats in mill-sixpences
Usage notes
- The sixpence was one of the first English coins milled (in 1561).
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