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piaster
[ pee-as-ter, -ah-ster ]
noun
- a former coin of Turkey, one 100th of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- a monetary unit of Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, one 100th of a pound.
- a former monetary unit of South Vietnam: replaced by the dong in 1976.
- the former peso or dollar of Spain and Spanish America.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
“Eventually,†he said, “one of the people back there is going to start thinking about collecting the twenty-thousand piaster reward and the gold medal the VC gives out for a dead American.â€
"It is time for the 5 piaster loaf to increase in price," Sisi said at the opening of a food production plant.
“Don’t tell Orr I gave it to you. I charged him two piasters for his.â€
Peewee paid them three hundred piasters, about three dollars, for four bottles of the hair stuff and the feet stuff.
He found a pouch of rice, a comb, a fingernail clipper, a few soiled piasters, a snapshot of a young woman standing in front of a parked motorcycle.
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