Plackとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle Dutch placke (“name of a coin”). Cognate with Old High German pleh, bleh (“thin leaf of metal, plate”). Compare plaque.

名詞

plack (複数形 placks)

1. (obsolete) A coin used in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries. [15th-17th c.]
2. (Scotland, Northern England, historical) A coin issued by James III of Scotland; also a 15th-16th century Scottish coin worth four Scots pennies. [from 15th c.]
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 49:

     ‘Yes, I prayed you to grant my life, which is in your power. The saving of it would not have cost you a plack, yet you refused to do it.’

名詞

plack

1. Misspelling of plaque.