Bradbury

plural Bradburys

1. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA village in Bradbury and the Isle parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ3128).
   2. countableuncountableA city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
   3. countableuncountableA township in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States.
   4. countableuncountableA suburb of Sydney, in the City of Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia.
2. countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.

plural Bradburys

1. UKslangA British banknote issued during WW I in denominations of £1 or 10 shillings.

   "And the contents of my cigarette-case are half a dozen gaspers, and a ten-bob Bradbury patched together with stamp paper!"

   1920, Sapper, Bulldog Drummond

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   Then she offered Eliza five Bradburys and what she was wearing at the time to co-operate and Eliza, we may imagine, simply leapt at it.

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

   "Well, the price of a drink will do as well. If you've got a Bradbury about you I could do with it, for there's nothing coming my way." Tom Linden took a pound note from his desk.

   1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019