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Louis d'or   /lˈuɪs dɔr/   Listen
Louis d'or

noun
1.
A former French gold coin.






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"Louis d'or" Quotes from Famous Books



... Inn, London. Newton was in relations with Cluny Macpherson, through a friend in Northumberland. Cluny, skulking on his Highland estates, was transmitting or was desired to transmit a part of the treasure of 40,000 louis d'or, buried soon after Culloden at the head of Loch Arkaig. {70a} Of this fatal treasure we shall hear much. A percentage of the coin was found to be false money, a very characteristic circumstance. Moreover, Cluny seems to have ...
— Pickle the Spy • Andrew Lang



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