noun Download 🔗Share A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real. Examples : "The old map claimed the pirate treasure was worth five hundred piastres in 1780. " history economy finance value commerce Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada. Examples : "My great-grandmother often spoke of earning a few piastres selling homemade bread when she was a girl in Quebec. " world finance economy history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A form of currency formerly used in French Indochina. Examples : ""My grandfather told stories of buying food in Vietnam with piastres when he was stationed there during the war." " world economy finance history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire, and now used as a subunit in the Middle Eastern countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, Jordan, Libya, South Sudan, Turkey and Cyprus Examples : ""The street vendor in Cairo gave me back five piastres in change after I bought a bottle of water." " world economy finance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading