Picayune
A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real or one sixteenth of a dollar. Its name derives from the French picaillon, which is itself from the Provençal picaioun, the name of an unrelated small copper coin from Savoy.[1] By extension, picayune can mean "trivial" or "of little value".
Aside from being used in Spanish territories, the picayune and other
A newspaper published in
Times-Picayune (originally The Picayune), was named after the coin.[7]
A city in southern Mississippi has the name Picayune.
References
- ^ More Word Histories and Mysteries: From Aardvark to Zombie. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2006. p. 173.
- ^ United States Congress (February 9, 1793). "Act of February 9, 1793" (PDF). United States Mint. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-22. Retrieved 2021-12-27.
- ^ Spanish Silver: General Introduction Coin and Currency Collections - University of Notre Dame. Retrieved on April 7, 2008.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 579.
- ^ "Picayune", Probert Encyclopedia. Retrieved on April 10, 2008.
- ^ "Picayune", World Wide Words. Retrieved on April 8, 2008.
- ^ McLeary, Paul (2005-09-12). "The Times-Picayune: How They Did It". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
External links
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