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DzԳ--辱éé

[ mawnduh-pyey-tey ]

noun

French.
plural DzԳٲ--辱éé
  1. a public pawnbroking establishment that lends money on reasonable terms, especially to people with low incomes.


DzԳ--辱éé

/ ɔ̃ٱ /

noun

  1. (formerly) a public pawnshop
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Word History and Origins

Origin of DzԳ--辱éé1

First recorded in 1840–45; from French: literally “bank of pity,” from Italian monte di pietà
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Word History and Origins

Origin of DzԳ--辱éé1

from Italian monte di pietà bank of pity
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Example Sentences

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CajaSur sprang from the 1995 merger of a local bank and a pawnshop, or DzԳ--辱éé, which was founded in 1864 by the church to provide low-interest loans to the poor.

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A short time later he’d found a ticket from the shop in Mont-de-Piete in her room which proved that she’d pawned two bracelets.

From

But, this war, badly extinguished, recommended under Innocent X. the successor of Urban: and, because the duke of Parma could not pay soon enough the enormous interests due to the ‘Mont-de-piete,’ Castro was confiscated, sacked, and razed, by order of the head of the church: on the ruins of this city, a column was raised with tills inscription, “Here Castro was.”

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All articles pledged at the Mont-de-Piété, from February 4th, not exceeding in value ten francs, were ordered to be returned, and the Tuileries was decreed the future asylum of invalid workmen.

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It was not by accident that I learned of the Masurel Mont-de-Piété; but when I went to the Municipal Secretary to ask him for some official account of its condition and its operation, that courteous functionary looked at me for a moment with astonishment and then said, 'I am delighted to give you what you want, and I assure you that, with one exception, you are the only foreigner who has ever asked for this information in the last seven years!

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