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dacha-saltee en · NOUN

Etymology

Compare Italian dieci soldi.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, qualifier:thieves' cant) Tenpence.
    • […] and what with my crippledom and thy piety, a-wheeling of thy poor old dad, we'll bleed the bumpkins of a dacha-saltee. 1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance., New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton; London: Trübner & Co.: