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Mont de Piété

Mont de Piété noun: a European pawnbroking establishment, especially one with charitable aims.

Noun

Mont de Piété (plural Monts de Piété)

  1. A European pawnbroking establishment, especially one with charitable aims.
    • It is interesting to note that one of the entrances to the Mont de Piété is reserved for clients who wish to raise money on deeds, and I have seen cabmen very busy in bringing to it people who quite shamelessly hold their papers in their hands.1924, Edward Verrall Lucas, A Wanderer in Paris, →ISBN
    • She has founded and regulated a sort of Mont de Piété, of a peculiar kind, which would be an admirable institution elsewhere, if it could be multiplied like the infant schools; for it is among the very small number of those which merit the name given to them, for money is there lent without...2014, Sarah Lee, Memoirs of Baron Cuvier, →ISBN, page 165

Forms of Mont de Piété

pluralMonts de Piété

Origin of Mont de Piété

French

Questions about Mont de Piété

What does Mont de Piété mean?
Mont de Piété means a European pawnbroking establishment, especially one with charitable aims.
What part of speech is Mont de Piété?
Mont de Piété is a noun.
What is the plural of Mont de Piété?
The plural of Mont de Piété is Monts de Piété.

Words near Mont de Piété in the dictionary

  1. mont blanc
  2. Mont Blanc ruby
  3. mont blancs
  4. Mont Cenis
  5. Mont Clare
  6. Mont de Piété
  7. Mont Valier
  8. Mont Vernon
  9. Mont-aux-Sources
  10. Mont-Blanc
  11. Mont-de-Marsan

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