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eightpenny
[eyt-pen-ee]
adjective
noting a nail 2½ inches (6.4 centimeters) long.
costing or amounting to the sum of eight pennies. 8d
Word History and Origins
Origin of eightpenny1
Example Sentences
The large fivepenny, sixpenny, eightpenny, and shilling often had unusually wide margins when perforated.
An eight-shilling meal stands out, among eightpenny teas, as a rare extravagance….
Even on ordinary days those low-ceiled dining-rooms, stretching far back from the street in a complicated vista of interiors, were apt to be crowded; for the quality of the eightpenny dinner could be relied upon.
It was when you told me to put the eightpenny scuttle in Miss Jenkins' room.
If the ghost of his grandfather, Sir, was to rise before him this minute, he'd ask him for the loan of his acceptance on an eightpenny stamp.'
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