pice

[ pahys ]

/ paɪs /

noun, plural pice.

a former bronze coin of British India, one quarter of an anna.Compare pie⁵.

paisa (def. 1).

Origin of pice

First recorded in 1615–20; see origin at paisa

Words nearby pice

Piccard, piccata, Piccinni, piccolo, piccoloist, pice, piceous, pich, pi character, pichiciago, pichiciego

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Example sentences from the Web for pice

Sribatsa and his wife, without a pice in their pocket, went to a village which was hard by.
Folk-Tales of Bengal|Lal Behari Day
A good bowl of rice, called "cat's head" and costing twenty cash, or one cent gold, was usually the pice de rsistance.
A Wayfarer in China|Elizabeth Kendall
The pice de rsistance is the Renaissance tomb of the Cardinals d'Amboise.
The Cathedrals of Northern France|Francis Miltoun
It is a commodity not marketable, and Nature somehow ceases to produce what has not its value in the pice courant.
Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II)|Edmund Downey

The mouth was stuffed with rags, but when they were removed we beheld it filled with money—rupees and pice mixed together.
Confessions of a Thug|Philip Meadows Taylor

British Dictionary definitions for pice

pice

/ (paɪs) /

noun plural pice

a former Indian coin worth one sixty-fourth of a rupee

Word Origin for pice

C17: from Mahratti paisā

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单词	pice
释义	pice [ pahys ] / paɪs / noun, plural pice. a former bronze coin of British India, one quarter of an anna.Compare pie⁵. paisa (def. 1). Origin of pice First recorded in 1615–20; see origin at paisa Words nearby pice Piccard, piccata, Piccinni, piccolo, piccoloist, pice, piceous, pich, pi character, pichiciago, pichiciego Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for pice Sribatsa and his wife, without a pice in their pocket, went to a village which was hard by. Folk-Tales of Bengal\|Lal Behari Day A good bowl of rice, called "cat's head" and costing twenty cash, or one cent gold, was usually the pice de rsistance. A Wayfarer in China\|Elizabeth Kendall The pice de rsistance is the Renaissance tomb of the Cardinals d'Amboise. The Cathedrals of Northern France\|Francis Miltoun It is a commodity not marketable, and Nature somehow ceases to produce what has not its value in the pice courant. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II)\|Edmund Downey The mouth was stuffed with rags, but when they were removed we beheld it filled with money—rupees and pice mixed together. Confessions of a Thug\|Philip Meadows Taylor British Dictionary definitions for pice pice / (paɪs) / noun plural pice a former Indian coin worth one sixty-fourth of a rupee Word Origin for pice C17: from Mahratti paisā Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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