Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
toman .
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Examples
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She moreover offered fifty piastres in silver coin for minor expenses; and a chain for the neck, from which there should be suspended one gold tomaun of Persia.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier
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He then sent one tomaun: this also was sent back, until at length in despair he sent five tomauns, which, it was intimated, was the sum proper to be given.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier
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Unable to comply, the fact was respectfully pleaded in excuse; namely, "that all the money the city had possessed was already taken away by his own officers, and those of the opposite party; and that, at present, there was scarce a tomaun in the place."
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