aspers

[as-per]

as·per

1[as-per]
noun
a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.

Origin:
1580–90; < Italian aspero < Medieval Greek áspron literally, white coin, noun use of neuter of áspros white
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Aspers is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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