Etymology

billon

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Today it means: Any of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that are used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc. Full definition →

French billon ← Old French bille
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The story

  1. Old French · derived frombille“stick of wood”
  2. French · borrowed frombillon
  3. English todaybillon

Borrowed from French billon, from Old French bille (“stick of wood”).

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchbille all →

billiardsbilliard

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.