From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pelf \Pelf\ (p[e^]lf), n. [OE. pelfir booty, OF. pelfre, akin to
pelfrer to plunder, and perh. to E. pillage. Cf. {Pilfer}.]
Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea
of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.
"Mucky pelf." --Spenser. "Paltry pelf." --Burke.
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Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry?
--Fuller.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pelf
n 1: informal terms for money [syn: {boodle}, {bread},
{cabbage}, {clams}, {dinero}, {dough}, {gelt}, {kale},
{lettuce}, {lolly}, {lucre}, {loot}, {moolah}, {pelf},
{scratch}, {shekels}, {simoleons}, {sugar}, {wampum}]
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