franc-piece

English

Noun

franc-piece (plural franc-pieces)

  1. (obsolete) A one-franc coin.
    • 1872, Edward Everett Hale, Stand and Wait‎[1]:
      Well, I found a funny little carriage, with a funny old man who did not understand my patois any better than I did his; but he understood a franc-piece. I had my guide-book, and I said auberge; and we came to the oddest, most outlandish, and old-fashioned establishment that ever escaped from one of Julia Nathalie woman's novels. And here I am.
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