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Billon  n.  An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.





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... Crbillon (Claude Prosper Jolyot) was confined in the Bastille on account of his satirical romance Tanzai et Nadarn (1734, 2 vols., in-12). His father, Prosper Crbillon, was a very famous French dramatic poet, and discarded the profession of the law for the sake ...
— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield


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