Definition of "centimo" []

• See Table at currency. (noun)

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• "I paid my bill there, which was imagined with scrupulous fullness to the last possible centimo, and so I may disinterestedly declare that the Eitz is the only hotel in Madrid where you get the worth of your money, even when the money seems more but scarcely is so."
• "'Even before dying, my father sensed that I was going to spend his money on all the things he most detested in life, down to the last centimo.'"
• "Priest and peasant, the great lady and the gentleman who sells one a glass of water for a centimo, brush past each other."