Etymology

livre tournois

Today it means: One of numerous currencies used in France in the Middle Ages. Full definition →

French livre tournois
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromlivre tournois“Tours pound”
  2. English todaylivre tournois

From French livre tournois (“Tours pound”) (contrasted with that of Paris).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.