Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Japanese unit of weight, equivalent to 3.756 grams, or nearly 60 grains.
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- noun The unit used in
pearl and paper trading (3.75grams ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Highrow ebrybody, iz mi da bom momme who was gon cause ob da stoopie Mac wented pleh agin!
Don’t be sad, there will be other - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Dis iz whi diz beez da bestest playce, ai waz cormcerned dat peeps wood fink mii da bad momme for adbocatin da smak, al da peeps who sayz “neber spank da kidlets, eet maeks dem has da self-esteem ishuez”.
Gee tanks, I will have dem - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Morris pegs the momme at 58 troy grains, or 3.758 grams ↩
井の中の蛙 » When translating, leave currency in the original units » Print 2009
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O bom-momme deecidahed nawt tu yuze jus 2 enehtshuls!
I don’t do “Get it, boy”. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Morris pegs the momme at 58 troy grains, or 3.758 grams ↩
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"Persimmons of a hundred momme (375 grammes) each; twenty cartloads for the profit of the house at the fall of the year."
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Taking the extremes, the largest English male brain weighs 38,100 momme and the smallest 35,377, whereas the corresponding figures for Japan are 43,919 and 30,304, respectively, showing an astonishing range between extremes.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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According to Dr. Davis, the average European male brain weighs 36,498 momme, and the Australian, 22,413, while the Japanese, according to
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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Ultimately, in 1735, the Bakufu inaugurated a system of officially fixed prices (osadame-soba), according to which 1.4 koku of rice had to be exchanged for one ryo of gold in Yedo, the Osaka rate being fixed at forty-two momme of silver for the same quantity of the cereal.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Anyone violating this rule was fined ten momme of silver for each koku of rice purchased or sold by him.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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