subs. (old).—See quots.

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  1362.  LANGLAND, Piers Plowman, xv. 342. As in LUSSHEBORWES is a lyther alay · and ȝet loketh he lyke a sterlynge.

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  1383.  CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales [SKEAT (1894), iv. 243, 3152]. God woot, no LUSSHEBURGHES payen ye!

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  1661.  T. BLOUNT, Nomolexicon, s.v. A brass coyn in the days of Edward III.

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  1894.  SKEAT, Chaucer, v. 225. Note to line 3152. LUSSHEBURGHES, light coins…. Spurious coins imported into England from Luxembourg, whence the name…. The importation of this false money was frequently forbidden, viz. in 1347, 1348, and 1351.

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