sou

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Why, you know perfectly well that I haven't a sou -- anything you can call a sou!

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  1. noun One of several coins formerly used in France, worth a small amount.

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  • He then put on an oil-skin cap, not unlike what is called by sailors a 'sou'-wester,' and stood watching the proceedings of his comrade, which were by no means as expeditious as his own; for that gentleman proceeded very leisurely to encase his feet in a pair of thick woollen stockings, and a pair of shoes more capable of resisting the wet than those which he then wore. —  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1
  • We are kept confined, closely confined, till eighteen, for mamma was very indulgent in bringing me out when I was only seventeen; but mamma is goodness itself, and then she isn't coquettish for a sou--she didn't mind admitting that she had a marriageable daughter. —  Parisian Points of View
  • But it would be full of people who'd be fond of you, not for the sou--but for yourself She did her best to be offended. —  The Street Called Straight
  • The papier-mâché sheep is one of the most elaborately fashioned toys sold for a sou, and the mode of making it is this: The workman takes old scraps of paper and mashes them in water to a pulp: this he sticks around the inside of a rude mould, which is in two parts, one for each side of the sheep. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
  • No one ventured to offer them the sou which is not refused to those who are hungry. —  Doctor Pascal
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  1. French, from Old French sol, from Late Latin solidus, solidus; see solidus.

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  1. French sou, Old French sol, the name of a coin: see sol, sous, soldo.
 

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