Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small copper coin of Venice, current in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the system established in 1750 it was equal to a quarter of a United States cent, being the fortieth part of a lira piccola; a bagattino.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A small brass Venetian coin.
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Rice beer is popular throughout West Africa, and in Nigeria a special beer (called betso or buza) is made from rice and honey.
1. African Rice 1996
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