livre
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9.9
- noun
- /liˈvr/
- Archaic
:
libra
- This morning I gave my ten livres to the slave-master to divide among the field-hands.
Examples
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"She went to the cabinet where she kept her market money and counted out his payment, then added a couple livres.
Fiction book (1998) -
He also gave an annual rente of 15 livres for Masses as a short-term loan, which he would recoup once there were sufficient alms and donations for the maintenance of the shrine.
Academic text (2018) -
You have made a pledge of two million livre.
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- Doctor, lend me half a livre.
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And every livre you possess, I'll wager.
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A game that is said to cost the exchequer one million livres a year.
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Ten livres of small glass beads: white, green, and transparent.
Academic text (2001) -
Thus, in 1608, the seigneur and lady of Kerroué gave a gold-plated cross to the church of Loguivy, costing almost 400 livres.
Academic text (2018) -
Villers's pecuniary prize of two thousand livres was devalued in 1796 and converted to assignats, which quickly became worthless (845).
Academic text (2015) -
The cost of the painting was three hundred livres, which was a significant amount at that time.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Livre comes from the Latin libra, which meant 'scales' and was a unit of weight like the English 'pound'. Because coins were once valued by their weight of metal, livre became the name of a French money unit.