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TWELVE-PENNY

Traducere în limba română

twelve-penny adjectiv (rar)

1. (în valoare de) un şiling.

2. (fig.) fără valoare, neînsemnat.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

She would craunch the wing of a lark, bones and all, between her teeth, although it were nine times as large as that of a full-grown turkey; and put a bit of bread into her mouth as big as two twelve-penny loaves.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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