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Middlemarch vocabulary

8 music terms, specific compositions and/or instruments

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farthing: ► definition

Definition:

was a small copper coin, looked something like a cent.

^{George Orwell. 1984 (1949)}
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(historical) Former British unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny.

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(the coin became obsolete in 1960)
^{photo: By John Alan Elson - direct scan by John Alan Elson, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36084161}