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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

money and marbles en · NOUN

Etymology

Compare French meubles.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only) Cash and movable items or personal effects.
    • […] if the tenant afterwards redeemed and went into occupation again, those improvements were then the landlord's property, and the tenant could not claim for them again. He could not be entitled to both money and marbles. 1880, Parliamentary Debates, page 1133: