GUINEA


Meaning of GUINEA in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

guinea fowl

guinea pig

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

fowl

Add some celery and apple to the shallot dressing and spoon around the guinea fowl terrine.

She sometimes puts slices of smoked guinea fowl around the edge to give added texture.

You get sensible, straight forward dishes such as guinea fowl with honey and sesame seeds.

Katie's Game supplies duck, quail and guinea fowl , which it also bones for its customers.

Belle Hiya-sorry-the guinea fowl is proving more complicated than expected.

William He's cooking guinea fowl ?

■ VERB

pay

They paid him five guineas , or 5.25 for it.

In March, however, they relented and - perhaps persuaded by the convalescent Hamilton - agreed to pay him eight guineas .

William Titford had paid five guineas during the 1870s for the exclusive right of burial in his chosen plot.

That Van Butchell was willing to pay the 100 guineas is interesting and suggests that there were no bounds to his eccentricities.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And even in those pre-inflation days the price two years later was up to 2,500 guineas.

Annual members would subscribe two guineas perannum, and life members 20 guineas.

Since he could command a thousand guineas a time, he was well able to afford such a residence.

The Association was open to anyone resident in the island who was prepared to pay the annual subscription of one guinea .

The Earl of Radnor and Lady Windsor each gave ten guineas.

The Usher's salary was increased from £105 to 150 guineas.

Two hundred years ago an eight-seater box for a theatre season cost a staggering 2,000 guineas, she learned.

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