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Bimetallism   Listen
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Bimetallism  n.  The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; in opposition to monometallism. Note: The words bimétallisme and monométallisme are due to M. Cernuschi (1869).





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... Vague ghosts of bygone persons and of piquant anachronisms seemed to float approvingly in the air: the Prince Consort, bustles, the high bicycle, sherry, Moody and Sankey, the Crystal Palace, Labouchere, "Pigs in Clover," Lottie Collins, Evolution, Bimetallism: hosts of forgotten images, names and shibboleths came popping out from the brain's dusty pigeon-holes, magically released by the spectacle of the ...
— Observations of an Orderly - Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital • Ward Muir


Words linked to "Bimetallism" :   standard, bimetallistic


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