Definition of "tournois" [tour•nois]

• A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous. (noun)

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• "Gardener Martin Beguin was paid 90 livres tournois for the same two-year period, and laborers Clément Morel and Guillaume Morel got 75 livres tournois."
• "He sold some of his landed property in the seigneury of Puy-du-Fou and obtained a capital of 29,416 écus or 88,248 livres tournois in liquid assets, a large sum by the standards of that age."
• "Three livres tournois comparable to English pounds equalled one écu."