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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Fee-penny

A fine for money overdue. Sir Thomas Gresham often wrote for money “in order to save the fee-penny.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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