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pisterine

pisterine is the alternative form 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

Forms of pisterine

pluralpisterines

Questions about pisterine

What is pisterine the alternative form of?
Pisterine is the alternative form of pistareen.

Words near pisterine in the dictionary

  1. pistazite
  2. pistazites
  3. piste
  4. pisted
  5. pisteology
  6. pisterine
  7. pisterines
  8. pistes
  9. pistic
  10. pistick
  11. pisticks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pisterine (page history and authors); pistareen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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