英语词汇greenbacks的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	greenbacks
词源	greenbacks. Union troops in the Civil War named U.S. Trea- sury legal-tender banknotes greenbacks for the obvious reason that the backs of the bills were green. Over a half-billion dol- lars’ worth of them were issued. The Confederacy issued more than a billion dollars’ worth of “bluebacks” and “graybacks,” which were worthless because they had no gold or silver be- hind them. “Goldbacks” (1873) and “Yellowbacks” (1902) were other colorful U.S. banknotes.
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