assignat
See also: assignât
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French assignat.
Pronunciation
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Noun
assignat (plural assignats)
- (historical) A banknote used during the French Revolution, on the security of state land.
- Burke
- They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.
- 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society 2010, p. 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 2003, p. 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.
- Burke
Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
assignat (feminine assigna, masculine plural assignats, feminine plural assignes)
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French
Etymology
From assign(er) + -at.
Pronunciation
Noun
assignat m (plural assignats)
Further reading
- “assignat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) assīgnat
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