Piastres is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PIASTRES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PIASTRE, a monetary unit of several Arab countries, also PIASTER
• a monetary unit of several Middle Eastern countries, equal to one hundredth of a pound.

Words related to PIASTRES

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How to use PIASTRES in a sentence

• The price of a camel varies from 60 to 200 piastres.
• Many good ones were sold at the camp for eighty piastres each, or about two pounds ten shillings, English money.
• A good sheep was disposed of for four or five piastres, or about three shillings.
• A tolerably good horse in Tunis sells at from 800 to 1000 piastres.
• Basili took his with an awkward show of regret at my intended departure, and marched away to his quarters with his bag of piastres.
• The captain of the Osiris mustered the passengers together, and informed them that each one would be obliged to pay six piastres for the transportation of himself and his baggage.
• He accepted Moslemism with Bem and others, and now rejoices in his circumcision and 7,000 piastres a month.
• The man who sold them the horse offered them another for the lame one and 150 piastres, and there was no other alternative but to accept it.
• The last scene of our strange, eventful history with the katurgees had just transpired, by their deserting us, being two hundred piastres in our debt.
• Accordingly, I had asked my coffee-house keeper to buy a hundred or so piastres.
• What could he have procured with his piastres and bank-notes in the small markets of New-Berne? This chief town of Craven County contained barely six thousand inhabitants.
• He had not the eyes or the general air of a man who will part with ten piastres for nothing.
• He chucked Poll a diamond worth about a million piastres, and, remarking that he would not trouble him for the change, he walked out.
• Their learned books are waste paper, used to wrap up cheese or dates, and I was told that one high official had bought thirty volumes of French literature for 50 piastres.
• An annual tribute of 1,500,000 Turkish piastres to be paid by this Greek state.
• The older men looked instead with grim, set smiles at the casks of piastres about the main mast.
• She could do no less than give 1,372,640 piastres, and she gave them with an ardour that betrayed, however, a certain pressure from the Government of the Porte.
• You are compelled to take out a firmann, which costs from 1000 to 1200 piastres.
• It is said that the poorest seldom escape for less than four hundred piastres.
• The Counts paid the two chiefs three hundred piastres, with the travelling expenses for themselves and their twelve men.
• An innkeeper generally demands between thirty and forty piastres per diem for dinner and supper.
• My room, with attendance, only cost me three piastres per diem.
• The chief compartment of the cabin had been engaged for me, at an expense of 100 piastres.
• Then he came down to three piastres, then to two, and finally said he would be content with one, which I threw to him.
• Thus, for instance, a bed for one night costs a hundred piastres, a little chicken twenty, and a bottle of water two piastres.
• Stuart, the fat Birmingham clergyman, was thrashing out a question of piastres with a noisy donkey-boy, and the others were joining in with chaff and advice.
• Our money consisted of piastres, pauls, and crazie.
• He pronounced, in a word, for the right of the strongest, and for piastres, women, and freedom as the great objects of existence.

Similar words containing PIASTRE without suffix s

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