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📚 name • entry_id 1092

Guinea

/ˈɡɪni/
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Guinea
A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea.
Among the frontrunners before the conclave began were Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state; Luis Antonio Tagle, a reformer from the Philippines; Péter Erdő, a tradition…
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📚 noun • entry_id 25133

guinea

/ˈɡɪni/
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guinea
A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred year…
However, since there are 488 pages in all for a bargain price of a guinea one must not be too carping.
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