Associations to the word «Piaster»

Wiktionary

PIASTER, noun. Alternative spelling of piastre

Dictionary definition

PIASTER, noun. A fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria.
PIASTER, noun. 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne