pice

[ pahys ]

/ paɪs /

noun, plural pice.

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

paisa(def 1).

Nearby words

piccard, piccata, piccinni, piccolo, piccoloist, pice, piceous, pich, pichiciago, pichiciego, picinni

Origin of pice

First recorded in 1605–15, pice is from the Marathi word paisā

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Examples 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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