˜yÐÄvlog

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piaster

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[ pee-as-ter, -ah-ster ]

noun

  1. a former coin of Turkey, one 100th of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
  2. a monetary unit of Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, one 100th of a pound.
  3. a former monetary unit of South Vietnam: replaced by the dong in 1976.
  4. the former peso or dollar of Spain and Spanish America.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of piaster1

First recorded in 1605–15; from French piastre, from Italian piastra “thin sheet of metal, silver coin†(short for piastra d'argento, literally, “plate of silverâ€), akin to piastro plaster
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“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€

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"It is time for the 5 piaster loaf to increase in price," Sisi said at the opening of a food production plant.

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“Don’t tell Orr I gave it to you. I charged him two piasters for his.â€

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Peewee paid them three hundred piasters, about three dollars, for four bottles of the hair stuff and the feet stuff.

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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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