a. (sb.) Hist. Forms: 4–5 Tourneys, 5 Turneis, 6 Tornois, 7 Tor-, Turnoys, 7– Tournois. [Fr. Tournois adj.:—L. Turonēnsis, of Tours, Turonēs, a city of France.] Of or pertaining to Tours: esp. said of the money coined at Tours, one-fifth less in value than that struck at Paris.
1475. Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.), 32. To the yerely valeu of .x.Ml. marcs yerely, whiche was .lx. Ml.li. Turneis.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. cliv. 184. The french kyng shall delyuer to the kyng of Nauer, xxxviii.M.li. tornois of lande.
1625. in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 331. The sum of Two hundred and thirteen thousand Livres Turnoys.
1769. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 85. The ship of war … has on board … about an hundred thousand crowns tournois in piastres.
1852. Miss Yonge, Cameos (1877), III. iii. 27. Sufficient to pay nine thousand soldiers at the rate of ten livres tournois per month.
b. sb. Money or a coin of Tours: see quots.
13[?]. Coer de L., 2856. They myghte have none othir thyng For whyt tourneys, ne for sterlyng.
1426. Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 17664. To tourne, by hys sotylte, A Tourneys to A parysee.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Tournois..., a French penny, the tenth part of a penny sterling…. In France they say so much money Tournois, as we say sterling.
1893. Antiquary, March, 105. Coins found in St. Queran’s Well, 1869…. Double Tournois.
