Ape Man
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Post by Ape Man on Oct 16, 2012 16:40:02 GMT 1
p26: "From the Horeb heights of the doorstep, Audrey's father hands down a tosheroon, then a second, which is followed - after an insulting interval - by a sixpence."
What is a "tosheroon"?
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Post by Wildreader on Oct 16, 2012 17:01:02 GMT 1
I've seen tosheroon given as a crown (5 shillings or 25p) and as half a crown (2s 6d or 12.5p).
You might just as well have asked what are "Horeb Heights"? It's not easy reading a book when you have to go to the dictionary twice in one sentence and NEITHER word is in there!
(I've only made it to page 40 or so... but I'll keep going.)
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Post by Craig Ryan on Oct 16, 2012 17:15:14 GMT 1
Acc. to my disintegrating Oxford dictionary of slang, a tosheroon is "dated" (how could it be anything else) London argot for a half crown. Which means Audrey's father was paying 5s 6d for whatever it was he was buying.
Origin unknown, it says.
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Post by Ape Man on Oct 16, 2012 18:32:54 GMT 1
You might just as well have asked what are "Horeb Heights"? It's not easy reading a book when you have to go to the dictionary twice in one sentence and NEITHER word is in there! Horeb is the mountain from which Moses brought down the 10 Commandments, I think. A lofty height indeed. |
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