From a window in the Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts (Fifteenth Century).
From a Window in the Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts (Fifteenth Century).
The French had a custom of reckoning sums by twenties: in the text of Joinville this stands, “six vingtslivres tournois.
Besides, we should add that the origin of the Quinze-Vingts is posterior by several years to his return from the crusade.
It has often been said, that the hospital of the Quinze-Vingts was established by Louis IX.
St. Louis founded the hospital known as the Quinze-Vingts (15 + 20) for three hundred poor knights whose eyes had been put out by the Saracens.
The Quinze-Vingts were privileged to place collecting-boxes and to beg inside the churches.
Deputations of the Montreuil, Quinze-Vingts and Droits de l'Homme sections came to the assistance of the Arsenal patriots; the aristocrats took to flight, leaving their hats behind them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vingts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
