Definition of "piaster" []

• See Table at currency. (noun)
• Piece of eight. (noun)

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• "A piaster was a lowdenomination Egyptian coin vaguely equivalent in value to an American penny."
• "A piaster is a silver coin of various countries, here representing about a dollar."
• "French group, but in South America twenty-five years ago a piaster was a piaster."