mont-de-piété

Juste lent Marcas two hundred francs in gold, the product of two watches bought on credit, and pawned at the Mont-de-Piete.

He would smooth the way for the good mother, leaving some of her jewels at the Mont-de-Piete.

Ruth's connexion with the mont-de-piete had come about almost automatically.

And at the mont-de-piete there occurred a surprising incident.

You would say, "What does this young man, so well-dressed, in a mont-de-piete?"