Associations to the word «Piaster»

Wiktionary

PIASTER, noun. Alternative spelling of piastre

Dictionary definition

PIASTER, noun. A fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria.
PIASTER, noun. 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats