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‖ lira|ˈlira, ˈlɪərə|
Pl. ‖ lire |ˈlire|, rarely liras. Also 7 in anglicized form lire.
[It. lira, a contracted form of L. lībra pound: see libra.]
1. The name of an Italian silver coin which is the unit of monetary value in that country.
1617Moryson Itin. i. 70, I bought..a fat hen for two lires. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 118 A bracera..may be hired from Venice to Trieste for fifty or sixty lire. Note, A lira is about 6d. sterling. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. i. 39, I found this book, Gave a lire for it, eightpence English just. 1877L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine iv, The money went to the marchioness..who may have fed the hungry and clothed the naked with the lire of the angry man. 1884F. Boyle On the Borderland 237 A baksheesh of two liras.
2. A monetary unit in Turkey.
1871Murray's Handbk. Turkey in Asia (new ed.) 27 The coinage consists of copper, silver, and gold, at the rate of 100 piastres to the Turkish pound or lira. 1884F. Boyle On Borderland betwixt Fact & Fancy 237 The high wall on our left was that of the pasha's grounds. The one-eyed calender informed me that he could get permission to visit them next day, for a baksheesh of two liras. Thirty-six shillings seemed too much to pay for a stroll through a burnt-up garden. 1904Daily Chron. 17 Feb. 3/6 A thousand Turkish liras weigh about 14 lb. 1912T. E. Lawrence Let. 10 Feb. (1938) 136 The foot seal must be worth a lira at the least. 1975J. Rathbone Kill Cure iii. vii. 128 ‘How much?’..‘Forty dollars or twenty-five sterling. Turkish lira, much more.’ |