Obs. rare–1. [Prob. the same as TOURNOIS. Cf. TURNER2.] A ‘black money’ or base coin, made in Ireland in the 14th c.
1339. in Rymer, Fœdera (1708), V. 113. Dato nobis intelligi quod quidam, Homines Hibernici, quandam Nigram Monetam, vocatam Turneys, in partibus Hiberniæ fabricari fecerunt.
