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sicca rupees

sicca rupees is the plural of sicca rupee.

Meaning of sicca rupee

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

Questions about sicca rupees

What is sicca rupees the plural of?
Sicca rupees is the plural of sicca rupee.

Words near sicca rupees in the dictionary

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

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