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Old Money
Old money refers to families who have been wealthy for at least three generations, as a term distinguishing them from the nouveau riche and parvenus (see template).Old money refers in the United Kingdom to the pre-decimal currency of pounds, shillings (or 'bob') and pence. It had abbreviation £sd. It also had guineascrowns, sovereigns, (rare) gold sovereignshalfpennies, and farthings. There were 240 pennies in one old pound, and 12 pennies in a shilling. See also: British coinage.Old Money can refer, informally, to any British imperial measurement (and sometimes to Fahrenheit temperatures).
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old money
Noun
1. the inherited wealth of established upper-class families; "he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth"; "she is the daughter of old money from Massachusetts"
(synonym) silver spoon
(hypernym) inherited wealth



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old money
an inheritance, money that has been in the family for decades She bought that property with old money - money that her great-grandfather saved.

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