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lira

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lira
1. the former standard monetary unit of Italy, San Marino, and the Vatican City, divided into 100 centesimi; replaced by the euro in 2002
2. the standard monetary unit of Turkey, divided into 100 kuruş
3. the standard monetary unit of Malta, divided into 100 cents or 1000 mils


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The wages were the noble figure of a lira and a half, which is just over a bob, a day, but there were lashings of sound wine for one and all, and better wine to bathe in.
Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context
And by ten o'clock we were quit of Genoa; the last lean, blue-chinned official had left our decks; the last fruitseller had been beaten off with bucketsful of water and left cursing us from his boat; the last passenger had come aboard at the last moment--a fussy graybeard who kept the big ship waiting while he haggled with his boatman over half a lira.
The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context
 
 
 
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