Middle English Dictionary Entry
crocard n.
Entry Info
| Forms | crocard n. |
| Etymology | AF; ?cp. croquier break in pieces. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
An inferior foreign coin often passed as an English silver halfpenny.
Associated quotations
- [ (1299) Statutes Realm1.131 : Nostre Roiaume e les autres terres de nostre seignurie sunt replenis de diverse mauveises monees, que sunt appellez Pollardz et Crokardz e par autres nons. ]
- [ ?a1325(1290-1) Liber Cust.Lond.in RS 12.2187 : La mauveise moneie qe hom apele crocard e pollard. ]
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)8.289 : Kyng Edward dampned sodeynliche fals money þat was slyliche i-brouȝt up; men cleped þe money pollardes, crocardes [Higd.(2): crokardes] and rosaries..First þey made oon of hem worþ an half peny, and þan he fordede hem all out.