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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)
- (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.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe: