cardecu
English edit
Etymology edit
From French quart d'écu ‘quarter of an écu’.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cardecu (plural cardecus)
- (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.