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plural piastres
(now historical) A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real. quotations
The Silkes, Velvets, Cloth of gold, and Tissue, Pyasters, Chicqueenes and Sultanies, which is gold and silver, they unloaded in foure and twentie houres, was wonderfull [...].
1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 39
(historical) A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada.
(historical) A form of currency formerly used in French Indochina.
(historical) A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire.
(historical) A form of currency formerly used in Cyprus.
A form of currency currently used as a subunit in the Middle Eastern and East African countries of Egypt, Jordan (partly including Palestine), Lebanon, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria. examples
(Louisiana) A dollar. examples