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Answer for the clue "Parisian who rushed, returning last of money in fives ", 7 letters:
quinary

Word definitions for quinary in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quinary \Qui"na*ry\, a. [L. quinarius, from quini five each, akin to quinque five: cf. F. quinaire. See Five .] Consisting of five; arranged by fives. --Boyle. Quinary system (Zo["o]l.), a fanciful classification based on the hypothesis that each group ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Quinary ( base - ) is a numeral system with five as the base. A possible origination of a quinary system is that there are five fingers on either hand . The base five is stated from 0–4. In the quinary place system, five numerals, from 0 to 4 , are used ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin quinarius "consisting of five, containing five," from quint "five each" (see five ).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of fifth rank or order. 2 Consisting of five things; arranged in fives 3 (context mathematics English) To the base of five; represented by the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Usage examples of quinary.

The quinary circle wasn’t half finished, the perfection incomplete—and since meeting Temzia, the need to conclude had ceased to dominate his every waking thought.

With the same advantages Samuel Dodgers had made junk of all existing Quinary radar systems and the tactics and strategy built around those systems.

Newbold regarded some letters of this reduced quinary text as equivalent to one another because of phonetic similarity.