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pistareens

pistareens is the plural of pistareen.

Meaning of pistareen

Noun

pistareen (plural pistareens)

  1. (historical) A Spanish silver coin worth two reales, used as common currency in the Americas in the 18th century.
    • [T]hose poor souls never had more than nine pence per day, and seldom more than six pence, from their masters or owners, though they earned them three or four pisterines […].1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 5, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I

Questions about pistareens

What is pistareens the plural of?
Pistareens is the plural of pistareen.

Words near pistareens in the dictionary

  1. pistacite
  2. pistacites
  3. pistack
  4. pistanthrophobia
  5. pistareen
  6. pistareens
  7. pistas
  8. pistazite
  9. pistazites
  10. piste
  11. pisted

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