peseta
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- noun
- /pəˈseɪtə/
- Archaic
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peseta
- In the 1990s, a meal at a restaurant typically cost around 1,000 pesetas.
- the Spanish peseta
- hundred pesetas
- million pesetas
Examples
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When the peseta was replaced by the euro, many people exchanged their old coins in banks.
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I took just one 5,000-peseta note.
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How do you know that the peseta will not trade at 20% of the euro?
Blog text (29) -
I am taking just one 5,000-peseta note.
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Will the people then keep current debt with a peseta salary? Will the savings become pesetas?
Blog text (29) -
The family lived in poverty, but Ernesto always seemed to have enough pesetas to buy the wine.
Fiction book (1994) -
If you want to borrow 10,000 pesetas, just say so.
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The price is set at 2,500 pesetas (about twenty US dollars) per person and includes one free drink.
Academic text (1998) -
My father paid the creditors 70 million pesetas, yes, 70 million, during the forties, can you imagine?
Fiction book (1993) -
You know, Julia and I started this ad agency with a few pesetas in our pockets and a prayer in our hearts and look at us now.
Synonyms
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Money that people used in Spain before the euro
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word peseta comes from the Catalan word peceta, from peça meaning 'piece', and the ending -eta makes it a 'little piece', like the English word 'piece'. So the name fits because the peseta was the small unit of money used in Spain until the euro came in 2002.