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piastre
Variant of piaster
noun
- Obsolete the Spanish dollar
- a monetary unit equal to of a pound in Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria
- a monetary unit of Sudan, equal to of a dinar
- a former monetary unit of Turkey, equal to of a lira
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