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sicca rupee

sicca rupee noun: a newly-minted rupee, having a higher value than those in long use; later (specifically), a rupee coined by the Bengal Government from 1793.

Noun

sicca rupee (plural sicca rupees)

  1. (historical) A newly-minted rupee, having a higher value than those in long use; later (specifically), a rupee coined by the Bengal Government from 1793.
    • For this house we agreed to pay three hundred sicca rupees, or thirty-seven pounds ten shillings, a month.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 215

Forms of sicca rupee

pluralsicca rupees

Questions about sicca rupee

What does sicca rupee mean?
Sicca rupee means a newly-minted rupee, having a higher value than those in long use; later (specifically), a rupee coined by the Bengal Government from 1793.
What part of speech is sicca rupee?
Sicca rupee is a noun.
What is the plural of sicca rupee?
The plural of sicca rupee is sicca rupees.

Words near sicca rupee in the dictionary

  1. sicarios
  2. Sicarius
  3. Sicas
  4. sicc
  5. sicca
  6. sicca rupee
  7. sicca rupees
  8. sicca syndrome
  9. siccaneous
  10. Siccanie
  11. siccanin

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