piastre
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From Italian piastra (“plate of wood or metal; coin”), probably from Latin emplastra.
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piastre (plural piastres)
- (now historical) A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.
- 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 39:
- The Silkes, Velvets, Cloth of gold, and Tissue, Pyasters, Chicqueenes and Sultanies, which is gold and silver, they unloaded in foure and twentie houres, was wonderfull [...].
- 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 39:
- A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire, and now used in the Middle Eastern countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria.
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piastre f.
- Plural form of piastra.
