libbra

Noun

libbra (plural libbre)

1. A traditional Italian unit of mass now equated to the pound.
   • We find that in modern times the funt of Russia, the libbra of Italy, the libra of Spain, Portugal and various South and Central American countries, the livre of France and Greece, the pfund of Germany, the pond of Java and the Netherlands, and the pund of Denmark and Sweden, correspond to the...1934 February, Ralph W. Smith, “What Is a Fifty-Pound Weight?”, in J[ames] McKeen Cattell, editor, The Scientific Monthly, volume XXXVIII, New York, N.Y.: The Science Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 114...
   • In the first two samples analysed (1743 and 1753), bread remained a grant for young children only, who were recipients of three to four libbre of bread per week.1991, Sandra Cavallo, “Patterns of poverty and patterns of relief”, in Stuart Woolf, editor, Domestic Strategies: Work and Family in France and Italy, 1600–1800, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge...