riel
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- noun
- /riːˈɛl/
- Louis Riel: A comic-strip biography. Chester Brown. Drawn and Quarterly. 978-1-896597-63-8.
Examples
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I exchanged my dollars for riels at the local currency exchange in Phnom Penh.
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The Cambodian currency, the riel, dropped less precipitously than other Asian currencies because of the extensive dollarization of the economy, but it suffered.
Academic text (2002) -
Cohen and Riel (1989) conducted a quantitative study to examine the quality of students' writing in two seventh-grade classrooms.
Academic text (2015) -
Most North Americans will get the reference to a faded Italian movie actor named Crystal Bell Cologne, but only Canadians and historians will get Louis, Ray, and Al in the Dead Dog Cafe as Louis Riel.
Academic text (1998) -
The price of a meal at the restaurant was 15,000 riels, which is quite affordable.
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Many vendors in Cambodia prefer to be paid in riels rather than US dollars.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Riel likely comes from an old word for a coin used around Southeast Asia, similar to real or rial, names once used for silver coins. So riel simply means 'money' and is the name of Cambodia's unit of currency.