bank-bill

[bank-bill] {n. phr.}

A bank-note.

Neither Johnson nor the other lexicographers have the term bank-note, though they all have bank-bill, which Johnson defines, "a note for money laid up in a bank, at the sight of which the money is paid."

In the United States these are invariably called bank-bills, while in England this term is obsolete, and bank-notes universally used.

Source: Dictionary of Americanisms

by John Russell Bartlett

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