Crossword-Solution: THREEPENNY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Threepenny | a. | Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “THREEPENNY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Of little worth | 1 answer |
| Opera of a certain price | 1 answer |
| Weill's "___ Opera" | 1 answer |
| Nail size | 4 answers |
| Opera | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEZEMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with THREEPENNY (5)
After much difficulty he was allowed to see the book-room, but he found in it nothing but dust and dirt, cobwebs and moths, and some books not worth a threepenny piece.[119] Roger de Thoris, afterwards Dean of Exeter, presented a library to the Grey Friars of his city in 1266.[120] What became of it we do not know.
When next he spoke he asked: “Was there anything in the pockets of the coat?” “There was sevenpence halfpenny in coppers and a threepenny-bit,” said the Major carefully; “there was a cigarette-holder, a piece of string, and this letter,” and he laid it on the table.
Among the bad threepenny pieces which had been passed off upon him, and which he kept for small hourly disbursement, was a remark that poor people were much nicer than the richer and better educated.
What's to be done? I have it! I'll go into a monastery." He went into a monastery in Bishopsgate Street, reached by a threepenny 'bus.
Like a true goldsmith he kept all your holidays; there was not one wanting in his calendar; when ready money was scarce, he would set them a-telling a thousand pounds in sixpences, groats, and threepenny-pieces.
Quotes with THREEPENNY (2)
I love 'Threepenny Opera'; I was exposed to it as a little kid because my parents, my mom and my dad, had bonded, when they were dating, over 'Threepenny Opera' and introduced it to me, a child, who could barely understand it. But I immediately gravitated even from that early age.
The political nature of 'Threepenny Opera' is immediately visible. I just think that that's not always a part of acceptable and fun entertainment that we're exposed to - that political side.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1973–1989).