Associations to the word «Tenpence»

Wiktionary

TENPENCE, noun. (obsolete) (British) A coin worth ten old pennies.
TENPENCE, noun. (obsolete) (British) The value of ten old pennies.

Dictionary definition

TENPENCE, noun. A decimal coin worth ten pennies.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope