Bradbury
(ˈbrædbərɪ)
[The name of John Swanwick Bradbury, Secretary to the Treasury 1913–19.]
Former colloquial name for a currency note of {pstlg}1. (Cf. Fisher2.)
| [1914 Punch 21 Oct. 342/3 Not a burglar on our books for the last six weeks..not a coiner, not a note expert. And they had the opportunity of their lives with the John Bradbury notes!] 1917 Punch 22 Aug. 128 Parting with three Bradburys and three shillings. 1920 Oxf. Tracts Econ. Subj. No. 27. 4 The ‘Bradbury’, nominally a pound, and by statute legal tender for a pound of debt, has lost, from its abundance, a part of its purchasing power. 1926 G. Frankau Masterson xvi, Cynthia had decided to ‘risk a couple of Bradbury's each way’. |