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French monetary unit
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centime
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1801, from French centime , from cent (see centi- ) on analogy of décime (pars) .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Hashish pills cost about twenty-five centimes a day and there is no evidence that Modigliani took anything else. ▪ Shares of Remy Cointreau traded recently at 28. 90 francs, up 10 centimes. ▪ Under the new system, producers of ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Centime (from ) is French for " cent ", and is used in English as the name of the fraction currency in several Francophone countries (including Switzerland , Algeria , Belgium , Morocco and France ). In France the usage of centime goes back to the introduction ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A former subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the franc. 2 A coin having face value of one centime.
Usage examples of centime.
The lot will then be divided between the butchers in the arrondissement, at twenty centimes per kilogramme below the retail price.
And on Sunday, when she rendered her weekly accounts, it was without a blush that she increased by a few centimes the price of each object, rejoicing when she had thus scraped a dozen francs, and finding, to justify herself to her own eyes, those sophisms which passion never lacks.
German coin called thaler, which represents three francs and sixty-eight centimes in French currency.
The man had never, never in his life had more than a few centimes, thrown to him by travellers, and he knew of no destination for this metal but the wine shop.
On reflection she made a thousand objections, terrified at the idea of a bowl full of soup, for she belonged to that race of parsimonious country women who always carry centimes in their pocket to give alms in public to beggars on the road and to put in the Sunday collection plate.
My sisters made their own gowns, and long discussions would arise on the price of a piece of braid worth fifteen centimes a yard.
To say that I never add a few centimes to bills, only a few, I would not say that.
She knew that people can interest themselves in the price of eggs, which cost a few centimes more or less according to the seasons.
He would arrange things in such a way that you would never get a centime of his fortune.
Morange had never discharged his duties more ably, obstinately tracing every doubtful centime in his books, and displaying the greatest accuracy over the longest additions.
They refuse to credit us for another centime until all the odds and ends are paid up.