Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
piaster .
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- noun now historical A Spanish or Spanish-American
coin and unit of currency, originally worth eightreal . - noun A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire, and now used in the Middle Eastern countries of
Egypt ,Lebanon ,Sudan andSyria .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria
- noun 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey
Etymologies
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Examples
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But the piastre is a name for coins of very different kinds; there are, for instance, the Government, the bazaar, the current, and the copper piastre, all and each of them representing completely different values.
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It is the smallest Egyptian coin, made of very base metal and, there being forty to the piastre, it is worth nearly a quarter of a farthing.
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Greek “Asper,” some silver; and representing, when at par, the fortieth of a piastre, the latter = 2d. 2/5ths.
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It is perfectly quiet; I have green trees to look upon, and spend the sum of one piastre a day.
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Not only are these bulls sold, but people are ordered to buy them; and, as is but right, they cost more in Peru and Mexico than in Spain; they are there sold for a piastre.
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Scraping the last piastre from the peasants, the tax collectors extracted a “great diversity of currency,” much of it in antique or small coinage, still strung together as jewelry.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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Scraping the last piastre from the peasants, the tax collectors extracted a “great diversity of currency,” much of it in antique or small coinage, still strung together as jewelry.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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Scraping the last piastre from the peasants, the tax collectors extracted a “great diversity of currency,” much of it in antique or small coinage, still strung together as jewelry.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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His defense, that the street was nothing but an open sewer anyway, failed to sway the arresting policeman who marched him across town at gunpoint to pay a fine of one piastre four francs.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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His defense, that the street was nothing but an open sewer anyway, failed to sway the arresting policeman who marched him across town at gunpoint to pay a fine of one piastre four francs.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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