Rupee
[ruː'piː;rʊ'piː] or [ru'pi]
Definition
(n.) A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.
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Definition
n. an East Indian silver coin nominally worth about 2s.—at present about 1s. 4çµ?
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Examples
- She showed it to me, Watson, and it was an Indian rupee. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- My son, sir, is at this minute chief magistrate of Ramgunge in the Presidency of Bengal, and touching his four thousand rupees per mensem. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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