piécette

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French

Etymology

From pièce +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pje.sɛt/
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Noun

piécette f (plural piécettes)

diminutive of pièce:
1. small coin
  une piécette de cinquante centimes
  a coin of fifty centimes
  - 1920, Henri-René Lenormand, Le Simoun, act I:
    Il se tait subitement et tend la main avec indifference. Les Arabes lui donnent quelques piécettes.
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2. small room
  - 1911, Paul Claudel, L'otage‎, page 56:
    Nous avons passé ensemble bien des heures […] , tapis dans quelque recoin précaire, dans quelque noire piécette.
    We spent many hours together, hidden in some precarious nook, in some dark room.

See also

pésète, peseta of which piécette was often a synonym

Further reading

“piécette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

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