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Guinea

noun

A former British gold coin worth 21 shillings.

(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent. Synonyms: dago, ginzo, greaseball, wop.

A republic in western Africa on the Atlantic; formerly a French colony; achieved independence from France in 1958. Synonyms: French Guinea, Republic of Guinea.

A west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world. Synonyms: guinea fowl, Numida meleagris.

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"Guinea" Quotes from Famous Books

... canoes from the Mayotta (island) where the pirate ship to which they belonged, the Indian Queen—two hundred and fifty tons, twenty-eight guns, commanded by Captain Oliver de la Bouche, bound from the Guinea coast to the East Indies—had been bulged (run ashore) and lost. They said they left the Captain and forty men building a new vessel, to proceed upon ...

— Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea • Charles H. L. Johnston

... the right moment!" said Morten, waving two notes in the air. "I've just had twenty krones (a guinea) sent me from The Working Man, and we can divide them. It's the first money I've got from that quarter, so of course I've spat upon ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... leave Calais, let me remind you, that an English guinea is worth more than a Louis d'or; and observe, that the first question my friend Mons. Dessein, at the Hotel D'Angleterre will put to you, (after he has made his bow, and given you a side look, as a cock does at a barley-corn) is, whether you have any guineas to change? because he gets by each ...

— A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 - Volume 1 (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse

... disheartening class of patients in a hospital. To eke out his narrow income he undertook to write annotations on the Scriptures, which were to come out weekly, and to be completed in a hundred numbers. The payment stipulated was the magnificent sum of a guinea a number! This was the origin of the famous Commentary. There is no need to make many remarks on this well-known work. As a practical and devotional commentary it did not perhaps attain to the permanent popularity of Matthew Henry's commentary, and in point of erudition and acuteness it is not ...

— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

... knew how to smile and make things pleasant. But at this moment he was very much put out. His covert had been found full of red herrings and strychnine, and his fox had been poisoned. He had lost his guinea on the day of the hunt, the guinea which would have been his perquisite had they found a live fox in his wood. And all this was being done by such a fellow as Goarly! And now this abandoned wretch was bringing an action against his Lordship and was leagued with such men as Scrobby and Bearside! It ...

— The American Senator • Anthony Trollope

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