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Rarepiastres
The correct spelling is piastres.
How to pronounce piastres
noun
Say it like: Pia-str-es
The correct spelling is piastres. A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.
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Definition
noun
- 1.A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.
- 2.A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada.
- 3.A form of currency formerly used in French Indochina.
- 4.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
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