piastres

noun

1. 1

   A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.

2. 2

   A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada.

3. 3

   A form of currency formerly used in French Indochina.

4. 4

   A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire, and now used as a subunit in the Middle Eastern countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, Jordan, Libya, South Sudan, Turkey and Cyprus