soldo

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When I gave him a soldo, he returned me a blessing which I would be ashamed to take in the United States for half a dollar; and when the soldo was in some inaccessible pocket, and I begged him to await my coming back, he said sweetly,--"Very well, Signor, I will be here."

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  1. A small Italian coin of copper or billon, the twentieth part of the lira; a sol or sou.

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  1. from Italian soldo, a coin: see sol, sou.
 

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