Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Croatian unit of currency equal to 1/100 of the kuna.

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  • noun A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Croatian kuna

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Serbo-Croatian.]

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Examples

  • "Salteris had something called a lipa in his robes."

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • In this season, whenever Antonina crossed the park on her way to the trolley stop, church or market, she walked through corridors thickly scented by linden flowers and abuzz with half-truths -- in local slang, lipa also meant white lies.

    ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ 2008

  • Traditionally, lindens capture the spirit of summer -- lipa means linden, and Lipiec means July.

    ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ 2008

  • Past the open patio doors, she could see the dark shed against the black of the evening sky where Caris sat alone with the lipa, the summoning-spell, and with the Archmage's cold body.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • Then he dug in his purse for the lipa and returned it to the Archmage.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • He tucked the lipa into the purse at his belt, and they resumed their walk up the narrow track to the Tower compound.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • My favorite machzor is the zichron lipa a pocket sized, hard cover, ashkenaz machzor that goes with me even when I have the misfortune of davening with sefardim.

    DovBear 2010

  • The four stations on the trial route had to be readied in a hurry and since it was done more for a photo-op, it was nothing but a make up, or 'lipa-poti', as they say in Hindi.

    The Times of India 2010

  • The four stations on the trial route had to be readied in a hurry and since it was done more for a photo-op, it was nothing but a make up, or 'lipa-poti', as they say in Hindi.

    The Times of India Rajesh Kalra 2010

  • This people draweth nigh unto me with - their mouth, and honoureth me with their lipa: but their heart is fiir from me.

    Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics Georg Joachim Zollikofer 1812

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