schilling

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From German Schilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz. Doublet of shilling.

[pounds are British money, the 19 is schillings, and then pence] "This is the last straw," said Pickles, "let us close the shop." — The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter, Beatrix Potter
The unexpected discovery of an object of great monetary value (precious stone, valuable adhesive or impressed postage stamps (7 schilling, mauve, imperforate, Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper, perforate, Great Britain, 1855: 1 franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxemburg, 1878), antique dynastical ring, unique relic) in unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid the carbonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a comestible fowl). — Ulysses, James Joyce

Austrian schilling

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