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Definition
an inadequate payment
- I fancy old Frankland allows her a pittance, but it cannot be more, for his own affairs are considerably involved.Chapter 10 — Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson (74% in)
There are no more uses of "pittance" in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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