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Webster 1913 Edition


Cardecu

Car′de-cu

(kär′dē̍-kū̍)
,
Noun.
[Corrupt, from F.
quart d’écu
.]
A quarter of a crown.
[Obs.]
The bunch of them were not worth a
cardecu
.
Sir W. Scott.

Definition 2024


cardecu

cardecu

English

Noun

cardecu (plural cardecus)

  1. (historical) A silver French coin worth a quarter of an écu.
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
      A set of hilding fellows there were, whom we dismissed to find them a new master — enough had been done for revenge and profit; the bunch of them were not worth a cardecu.

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