sevenpenceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

sevenpence (複数形 only)

1. (英国用法, obsolete) The value of seven old pennies.
   • 1895, F. J. Cross, Beneath the Banner^[1]:

     A newspaper cost sevenpence; there were no national schools or Sunday schools, no penny publications, no penny postage, no railways, no gas, and no free libraries, and no free education!

   • 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets^[2]:

     "A Costermonger in this street," says Crabbe, "finding lately that his rope of onions, which he hoped would have brought a shilling, was to go for only sevenpence henceforth, burst forth into lamentation, execration and the most pathetic tears.

語源 2

From the above.

名詞

sevenpence (複数形 sevenpences)

1. (英国用法, obsolete, まれに) Construed as singular.