pice

American  

[pahys] / paɪs /

noun

plural

pice

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

2. paisa.

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pice British  

/ paɪs /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of pice

First recorded in 1615–20; paisa ( def. )

Example Sentences

However, while work on that mammoth project gets underway, the billionaire businessman has made other arrangements for himself and his wife—snapping up a third Indian Creek Island abode for the sky-high pice of $87 million in 2024.

From MarketWatch

My favorite tests for sharpening knives is the paper trick: Simply sliding a knife through a singular pice of printer paper and seeing if it slices cleanly — or merely cutting into a tomato.

From Salon

The children had bought boxes of coloured matches and strings of patt-has and a few pice worth of crackers, like small nuts, which split in two with a loud bang amid a shower of sparks when lit.

From Literature

It’s the kind of place where barely an inch of wall space isn’t adorned with some pice of memorabilia.

From Golf Digest

He was 47 when he took the leap into his second career and bought a pice of land north of San Francisco.

From Seattle Times