quartern
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It was two shillings and three quartern loaves a week.
From A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison
This John Bull is hacked to make a Corsican and Yankee holiday, taxed at the bayonet's point, starved on bread at eighteenpence the quartern, and offered up as a sacrifice to a Bourbon "Bumble-head."
From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson
A paper bag containing half a quartern loaf was also given to each, and the contents rapidly disappeared.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies
I asked what the trouble was, and was told the baker had refused to sell his half-quartern loaves under sevenpence, or his quartern loaves under a shilling.
From The Message by H. M. (Henry Matthew) Brock
Shop-windows were stoned that night in south and east London; but twenty-four hours later the price of the quartern loaf was 1s. 3d., and a man offering 1s. 2d. would go empty away.
From The Message by H. M. (Henry Matthew) Brock
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