mont-de-piété

How to use mont-de-piété in a sentence

• Juste lent Marcas two hundred francs in gold, the product of two watches bought on credit, and pawned at the Mont-de-Piete.

  Z. Marcas | Honore de Balzac

• He would smooth the way for the good mother, leaving some of her jewels at the Mont-de-Piete.

  The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Vicente Blasco Ibanez

• Ruth's connexion with the mont-de-piete had come about almost automatically.

  The Man Upstairs | P. G. Wodehouse

• And at the mont-de-piete there occurred a surprising incident.

  The Man Upstairs | P. G. Wodehouse

• You would say, "What does this young man, so well-dressed, in a mont-de-piete?"

  The Man Upstairs | P. G. Wodehouse