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DzԳ--辱éé

[ mawnduh-pyey-tey ]

noun

French.
plural DzԳٲ--辱éé
  1. a public pawnbroking establishment that lends money on reasonable terms, especially to people with low incomes.


DzԳ--辱éé

/ ɔ̃ٱ /

noun

  1. (formerly) a public pawnshop
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of DzԳ--辱éé1

First recorded in 1840–45; from French: literally “bank of pity,” from Italian monte di pietà
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of DzԳ--辱éé1

from Italian monte di pietà bank of pity
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Example Sentences

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CajaSur sprang from the 1995 merger of a local bank and a pawnshop, or DzԳ--辱éé, which was founded in 1864 by the church to provide low-interest loans to the poor.

From

A short time later he’d found a ticket from the shop in Mont-de-Piete in her room which proved that she’d pawned two bracelets.

From

But, this war, badly extinguished, recommended under Innocent X. the successor of Urban: and, because the duke of Parma could not pay soon enough the enormous interests due to the ‘Mont-de-piete,’ Castro was confiscated, sacked, and razed, by order of the head of the church: on the ruins of this city, a column was raised with tills inscription, “Here Castro was.”

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All articles pledged at the Mont-de-Piété, from February 4th, not exceeding in value ten francs, were ordered to be returned, and the Tuileries was decreed the future asylum of invalid workmen.

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By an imperial decree of 1860, all that remained of the property of the 'Lombards' was amalgamated with the Masurel fund, and the institution was put under the direction of the official Mont-de-Piété of Lille, but with a separate system of accounts, and began its operations again on the lines laid down by its founder in 1607.

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