pistareen

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noun

A Spanish silver coin worth two reales, used as common currency in the Americas in the 18th century.

First used 18th c.Scrabble 11
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Meanings

nounpistareen (plural pistareens)

plural pistareens · alternative pisterine

  1. historicalA Spanish silver coin worth two reales, used as common currency in the Americas in the 18th century.First known use 18th c.

    [T]hose poor souls never had more than nine pence per day, and seldom more than six pence, from their masters or owners, though they earned them three or four pisterines […].

    1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 5, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I

Origin

Probably a corruption of the Spanish peseta + -een.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

sparteine
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APA

pistareen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pistareen

MLA

“pistareen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pistareen. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pistareen,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pistareen.

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