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sterling
noun
- an early English silver penny: a pound weight of these pennies was later standardized as a money of account
- English money having the fineness of quality of the standard silver penny
- sterling silver or articles made of it
- the standard of fineness of legal British coinage: for silver, 0.500; for gold, 0.91666
- British money
adjective
- of standard quality; specif., designating a silver alloy that is at least 92.5 percent pure silver
- of or payable in British money
- made of sterling silver
- of genuinely high quality; excellent: sterling principles
See sterling in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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