peseta
Americannoun
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pesetas
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a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. P., Pta.
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a former silver coin of Spain and Spanish America, equal to two reals; pistareen.
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a former monetary unit of Equatorial Guinea: replaced by the ekuele in 1973.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of peseta
1805–15; < Spanish, diminutive of pesa a weight. See peso
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The Soviet Union, more cannily, traded arms, planes, and tanks for Spain’s sizable gold reserves, the transfer of which crashed the value of the peseta.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 18, 2016
Once the peseta disappeared, this escape valve was gone and the economy began losing competitiveness in its main European markets.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2010
Spain vowed: "Cuba shall remain Spanish though it takes the last man and the last peseta."
From Time Magazine Archive
A year after his friend Picasso went to Paris, Manolo used his last peseta for train fare, arrived at Paris' Gare d'Austerlitz knowing one word in French: "Montmartre."
From Time Magazine Archive
On his wedding journey he spent a night at Monte Carlo and gambled it away to the last peseta.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
But the case of Mr. Solà was different: Ms. Marí recalled her family was paid nearly double the normal amount for care, 300 pesetas per month, a large sum to them at the time.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021
The cult classic was shot at weekends, on 16mm, with a budget of 500,000 pesetas.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2019
There is no way Spain can break this vicious circle by itself, unless it actually leaves the euro zone and prints new pesetas with abandon.
From Economist ● Nov. 8, 2012
Owing euros to depositors, and getting devalued drachmas, or lira, or escudos or pesetas from borrowers is one way to make capital vanish.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2011
The price to Bayonne had been fixed at a hundred and fifty pesetas.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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