[trɔɪ], (Noun)

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- a system of weights used mainly for precious metals and gems, with a pound of 12 ounces or 5,760 grains
(e.g: gold closed at $332.5 a troy ounce)


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late Middle English: from a weight used at the fair of Troyes (see Troyes)

[trɔɪ], (Noun)

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- (in Homeric legend) the city of King Priam, besieged for ten years by the Greeks during the Trojan War. It was regarded as having been a purely legendary city until Heinrich Schliemann identified the mound of Hissarlik on the north-east Aegean coast of Turkey as the site of Troy. The city was apparently sacked and destroyed by fire in the mid 13th century BC, a period coinciding with the Mycenaean civilization of Greece


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