piaster

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I gave her a double piaster, and asked for its value in blue glass armlets.

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  1. noun See Table at currency.
  2. noun Piece of eight.

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  • It was as yellow as paint, somewhat the size of a silver five-piaster piece, or roughly the size of an American quarter-dollar. —  136 - The Pharaoh's Ghost
  • The Jordanian Engineers Association is inviting you to help the people in Gaza through your financial donations, every piaster matters. —  Qwaider Planet
  • First one piaster (about twopence-halfpenny) was given to the skipper, then the boat was advanced about a hundred yards, when the oars were laid down once more. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
  • I gave her a double piaster, and asked for its value in blue glass armlets. —  The Gypsies
  • Once more both towns were plundered of every bale of merchandise and of every piaster, and once more both were ransomed until everything was squeezed from the wretched inhabitants Here affairs were like to have taken a turn, for when Captain Morgan came up from Gibraltar he found three great men-of-war lying in the entrance to the lake awaiting his coming. —  Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
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  1. French piastre, from Italian piastra, thin metal plate, from Latin emplastrum, medical dressing; see plaster.
 

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