Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A money of account formerly used in France and originally worth a pound of silver.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An old French coin and money of account, now superseded by the franc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun historical A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Old French, from Latin lībra, a unit of weight, pound.]

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From French livre.

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