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From French quart d'écu ‘quarter of an écu’.

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cardecu (plural cardecus)

  1. (historical) A silver French coin worth a quarter of an écu.
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
      A set of hilding fellows there were, whom we dismissed to find them a new master — enough had been done for revenge and profit; the bunch of them were not worth a cardecu.

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