Meanings
nounmill-sixpence (plural mill-sixpences)
plural mill-sixpences
- obsoleteA milled sixpence.
seven groats in mill-sixpences
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]1 more example
a mill sixpence of my mother's I loved as dearly, and a two-pence I had to spend over and above[…]
1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben Jonson, “The Masque of the Gypsies”, in Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […], published 1640, →OCLC
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