Piaster

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Piaster \Pi*as"ter\, n. [F. piastre, It. piastra a thin plate of
     metal, a dollar, LL. piastra, fr. L. emplastrum. See
     {Plaster}.]
     A silver coin of Spain and various other countries. See
     {Peso}. The Spanish piaster (commonly called peso, or peso
     duro) is of about the value of the American dollar. The


     Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents.
     The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four
     and a half cents.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  piaster
       n 1: a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan
            and Syria [syn: {piastre}]
       2: 100 kurus equal 1 lira [syn: {kuru}, {piastre}]