assignat
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See also: assignât
English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
assignat (plural assignats)
- (now historical) A banknote used during the French Revolution, on the security of state land. [from 18th c.]
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 196:
- If the landed man wishes to mortgage, he falls the value of his land, and raises the value of assignats.
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 387:
- [O]n her request for money, I took out a parcel of assignats I had in my pocket.
- 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 25:
- He was in favour of a national bank; he was strongly opposed to the reckless issue of assignats and spoke against it in the Assembly.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 508:
- The continuing depreciation of the assignat was worsening problems: in November and December, the currency's cash return dipped below 1 per cent of its face value, bringing a comic aspect to many exchanges and inducing street beggars to decline alms in paper form.
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Catalan[edit]
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Participle[edit]
assignat (feminine assignada, masculine plural assignats, feminine plural assignades)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From assign(er) + -at.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
assignat m (plural assignats)
Further reading[edit]
- “assignat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
assignat
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