(n.) A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to
20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.
录入:莫拉
双语例句
The French livre contained, in the time of Charlemagne, a pound, Troyes weight, of silver of a known fineness. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
The mark of standard gold, therefore, is worth no more than about six hundred and seventy-one livres ten deniers. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Both these districts are, by the additional tax, rated at eleven hundred livres each. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
But in France this mark of standard gold is coined into thirty louis d'ors of twenty-four livres each, or into seven hundred and twenty livres. 亚当·斯密.国富论.