Noun: piastre
| Singular | piastre |
| Plural | piastres |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
Nouns inflected like piastre
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French piastre, from Italian piastra (“plate of wood or metal; coin”), probably from Latin emplastra. See: French Nouns '
piastre', Italian Nouns '
piastra', Latin Nouns '
emplastra'.