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- noun Plural form of
picayune .
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Examples
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CALLEBS: I am going to give you a handful of picayunes for getting that right.
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It would be pitiful to tell how their days were spent to accomplish this end; how the dollars had been saved for thirty years and the picayunes hoarded; and yet, not half enough gathered!
The Awakening 2000
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There are no more umbrellas for a picayunish skeleton to raffle, no more such delicious sweets for the madame to stack into picayune piles, and, alack-a-day! no more picayunes, either.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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We had no fears about the eyes and hair of our picayunes.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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Page 29 was to accumulate enough picayunes to string on a thread for an ornament.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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Mr. Pierce had sent us forth in style, with a mature maid, as duenna, to look after the three frisky misses, also a pack of cards and a bag of picayunes, to play that elevating and refining game of poker.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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Soup bone was un escalin (two picayunes), but one paid for the soup vegetables, a bit of cabbage, a leek, a sprig of parsley, a tiny carrot, a still tinier turnip, all tied in a slender package.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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It would be pitiful to tell how their days were spent to accomplish this end; how the dollars had been saved for thirty years and the picayunes hoarded; and yet, not half enough gathered!
Ma`ame Pelagie 1895
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My mother helped me over this trouble by placing a well-filled gourd of picayunes and dimes, the accumulated savings of her patient life, at my disposal, and through the friendly offices of Willie, I managed to get together quite a little shelf of simple but useful books, stretching in their range from Mother Goose's Melodies to a battered copy of Pope's Translation of Homer's Iliad.
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In those early days of his disappearance there was money to the Charles name, and Grandemont had spent the dollars as if they were picayunes in trying to find the lost youth.
Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886
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