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Old Spanish

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Old Spanish
n.
Spanish before the middle of the 16th century.
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In one hand the body grasped a heavy sack of coins, which later examination showed to be all of old Spanish mintage.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Now they beheld a table of solid silver, once the property of an old Spanish grandee.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
It seems that an old bookworm who has a book and curio shop in Baltimore discovered between the leaves of a very old Spanish manuscript a letter written in 1550 detailing the adventures of a crew of mutineers of a Spanish galleon bound from Spain to South America with a vast treasure of "doubloons" and "pieces of eight," I suppose, for they certainly sound weird and piraty.
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