Examples of 'piastre' in a sentence

Meaning of "piastre"

piastre (noun): An outdated unit of currency used in various countries, mostly in the Middle East and Mediterranean regions
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  • A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.
  • A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada.
  • A form of currency formerly used in French Indochina.
  • A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire.

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One piastre equals ten milliemes.
It replaced the tical and was replaced by the piastre.
A piastre is forty paras.
These initially circulated alongside the old piastre currency.
The piastre continues in use to the present day as a subdivision of the pound.
We lost track of him during the piastre smuggling affair.
I have been working for ten days and have not made a piastre.
Piastre was the French term for dollars.
In rural areas of French Cochinchina sapèques were even more preferred over the piastre.
A 1 piastre note was issued that year in the name of all three states.
It replaced the French Indochinese piastre.
For the first few years, the riel and piastre circulated alongside each other.
The currency used within the French Union was the French Indochinese piastre.
As in Turkey, debasement lead to the piastre falling significantly in value.
To pay a corrupt official, a country-woman had to sell her daughter for one piastre.

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The last piastre coins were issued in the name of the " Indochinese Federation.
Voir l'explication des aboutissants de la conférence dans Hugues Tertrais, la piastre et le fusil.
The piastre was itself divided into 40 para like the kuruş.
Other names for the Canadian dollar is the Buck, piastre and the.
One piastre equals ten fulūs and one dirham equals 10 piastres.
Get me a pack of cigarette . Here 's some piastre.
In French, it was a piastre and in Portuguese, a pataca or patacão.
The currency was first introduced in 1952 to replace the French Piastre which was in circulation.
The piastre was itself divided into 40 para.
Here, boy, here is a piastre for you.
The piastre or plaster ( English, / piˈæstər / ) is any of a number of units of currency.
There were 40 paras to the piastre.
The Indochinese piastre is part of the " zone franc . ".
The kip was reintroduced in 1952, replacing the French Indochinese piastre at par.
Syrian piastre banknote issued in Beirut by the Bank of Syria in 1919.

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