billon
See also: billón
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French billon, from Old French bille (“stick of wood”).
Noun edit
billon (countable and uncountable, plural billons)
- Any of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that are used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc.
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Etymology edit
From Old French bille (“stick of wood”), from Medieval Latin billa, billia, from Gaulish *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolyo- (“leaf”).
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Noun edit
billon m (plural billons)
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Further reading edit
- “billon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.