英语词汇bluebacks的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bluebacks. Paper money used by the Confederates during the Civil War; also called graybacks. “During the Civil War . . . the original Blue Backs of the Confederacy (so-called in oppo- sition to Green Backs of the Union) soon became known as Shucks, a name sufficiently significant of their evil repute . . . ,” Maximillian Schele De Vere wrote in Americanisms (1871). Over a billion dollars’ worth of bluebacks and graybacks were issued by the South during the Civil War; the bills were worth about 1.7 cents in gold for each Confederate dollar by the end of the hostilities. See greenbacks.

词汇	bluebacks
词源	bluebacks. Paper money used by the Confederates during the Civil War; also called graybacks. “During the Civil War . . . the original Blue Backs of the Confederacy (so-called in oppo- sition to Green Backs of the Union) soon became known as Shucks, a name sufficiently significant of their evil repute . . . ,” Maximillian Schele De Vere wrote in Americanisms (1871). Over a billion dollars’ worth of bluebacks and graybacks were issued by the South during the Civil War; the bills were worth about 1.7 cents in gold for each Confederate dollar by the end of the hostilities. See greenbacks.
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