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Piastre
The piastre or piaster refers to a number of units of currency. The term originates from the Italian for "thin metal plate". The name was applied to Spanish and Hispanic American pieces of eight, or pesos, by Venetian traders in the Levant in the 16th century.

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piastre
Noun
1. a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria
(synonym) piaster
(hypernym) fractional monetary unit, subunit
(part-holonym) Egyptian pound, pound
2. 100 kurus equal 1 lira
(synonym) kuru, piaster
(hypernym) Turkish monetary unit
(part-holonym) lira, Turkish lira
(part-meronym) asper


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piastre
nf. piaster

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piastra
nf. piaster, plate, slab, hot plate, hob

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Piastre
(n.)
See Piaster.
  

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