quatroun

Old French

Noun

quatroun oblique singular, m (oblique plural quatrouns, nominative singular quatrouns, nominative plural quatroun)

(Anglo-Norman) quarter of a pound
(Anglo-Norman) twenty-five (literally, quarter of a hundred)

Descendants

→ English: quartern

References

quarteron on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Etymology and history of “quarteron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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