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„ 15. jaunet, 'gold pièce,' ' a yellow boy. '

un traître liard, ' not so much as a brass farthing. ' Traître, i.e. misérable ; liard, an old coin, worth about one-fourth of a half-penny : old terms referring to measures, weights, etc. , in use before the introduction of the Metric System, are still extensively used among country-people.

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