Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common name of a gold coin of Charles I. of England, worth 20s., officially called the unite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
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Examples
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The pontiff gave him leave, on condition that he imposed on every Irish family a tax of one carolus for the
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Thus the curfew, the carolus, and the St. Mary bells in
Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders George Wharton Edwards 1904
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It was the half of a gold carolus, the broken edge of the coin being rough and jagged.
A Gentleman of France Stanley John Weyman 1891
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Auftor operis folus eft carolus christophI REICHE.
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carolus, Bryan is trying to describe what parents do want.
The Parental Wish List: What's Missing?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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You and carolus’ responses are both defensive; you take the list personally and you dimiss items that you don’t feel you do.
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Kareem assumes he’s original and carolus assumes we need to know he’s not sexist.
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