"touch piece" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "touch pieces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "touch piece (plural touch pieces)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 187",
          "text": "At home there was still a brisk traffic in the touch-pieces given to the sufferer at the royal ceremony, and subsequently worn round the neck as a souvenir or a protective amulet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A coin or medallion given to someone in Britain after they had been touched by the sovereign as a cure for the king's evil."
      ],
      "id": "en-touch_piece-en-noun-xPl4bpju",
      "links": [
        [
          "coin",
          "coin"
        ],
        [
          "medallion",
          "medallion"
        ],
        [
          "touch",
          "touch"
        ],
        [
          "sovereign",
          "sovereign"
        ],
        [
          "king's evil",
          "king's evil"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A coin or medallion given to someone in Britain after they had been touched by the sovereign as a cure for the king's evil."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "touchpiece"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "touch piece"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "touch pieces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "touch piece (plural touch pieces)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 187",
          "text": "At home there was still a brisk traffic in the touch-pieces given to the sufferer at the royal ceremony, and subsequently worn round the neck as a souvenir or a protective amulet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A coin or medallion given to someone in Britain after they had been touched by the sovereign as a cure for the king's evil."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "coin",
          "coin"
        ],
        [
          "medallion",
          "medallion"
        ],
        [
          "touch",
          "touch"
        ],
        [
          "sovereign",
          "sovereign"
        ],
        [
          "king's evil",
          "king's evil"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A coin or medallion given to someone in Britain after they had been touched by the sovereign as a cure for the king's evil."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "touchpiece"
    }
  ],
  "word": "touch piece"
}