Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of the large flat pustular syphiloderm in which the crust is more or less distinctly conical and stratified: a use now obsolete.
- noun A current silver coin of Portuguese India, the same as the rupee, and equivalent to 32.47 United States cents.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Formerly the currencies of Italian Somaliland and Portuguese India.
- noun pathology An
ulcer due tosyphilis .
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Examples
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I've paid fees that should be criminal in some parts of the world, simply to exchange my hard currency for rupia, rubles or renminbi.
Stacie Nevadomski Berdan: Have ATM Card That Will Travel? Not So Fast 2009
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Typhus has a mouse-like odor, and the following diseases have at different times been described as having peculiar odors, -- measles, the smell of freshly plucked feathers; scarlatina, of bread hot from the oven; eczema and impetigo, the smell of mold; and rupia, a decidedly offensive odor.
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Typhus has a mouse-like odor, and the following diseases have at different times been described as having peculiar odors, -- measles, the smell of freshly plucked feathers; scarlatina, of bread hot from the oven; eczema and impetigo, the smell of mold; and rupia, a decidedly offensive odor.
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He said that two rupia would be sufficient to pay for our luggage.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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Dayaks, who are far more efficient and reliable, are satisfied with one rupia a day.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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The crust, which soon forms, is of a yellowish-brown or dark green color, and may be thick and stratified (_rupia_), as in the deep variety of the large flat-pustular syphiloderm.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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On the Mahakam there never was any difficulty about getting men who were eager to gain their one rupia a day.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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In the other type -- the deep variety -- the crust is greenish or blackish, is raised and more bulky, often conical and stratified, like an oyster shell -- _rupia_; beneath the crusts may be seen rounded or irregular-shaped ulcers, having a greenish-yellow, puriform secretion.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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The proper treatment of rupia does not differ from that suggested for pemphigus.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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A fine representation of rupia vesicles in both stages of development, is given in Colored Plate II, Fig. 13.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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