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pelf
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synonyms: lucre, mammon ???
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Definition:Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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And, trusting unto her to make his state,
He'll throw away all worldly pelf about him;
Which that he will perform, she doth not doubt him.
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and phartridges in their purblind pomp of pelf and power.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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