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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
11 nautical terms (boats, equipment, etc.)
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pistole
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synonyms: Louis dʼOr ???
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Definition:can refer to any of the European gold coins (each worth 10 livres) commonly used in Europe long before fiat currencies became the norm
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ORM. If you would lend me a couple of pistoles, you could repay yourself out of the profits of the scheme ….
Molière. The Bores
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There were six Spanish pieces of four pistoles each, beside twenty or thirty smaller coins.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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