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  • n  former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies

  • Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, rejected a demand of government charwomen for a pay increase of threepence, three farthings (6.
  • Among the cheery, bleary gatherings, he finds some of the best customers for his parish paper at threepence a throw.
  • They carried their gasmasks in biscuit tins which the school had sensibly bought from a bakery for threepence each.

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