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franc-piece en · NOUN
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(obsolete) A one-franc coin.
Well, I found a funny little carriage, with a funny old man who did not understand my patois any better than I did his; but he understood a franc-piece. I had my guide-book, and I said auberge; and we came to the oddest, most outlandish, and old-fashioned establishment that ever escaped from one of Julia Nathalie woman's novels. And here I am.
1872, Edward Everett Hale, Stand and Wait:
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