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mont-de-piété
[ mawnduh-pyey-tey ]
noun
, French.
, plural monts-de-pié·té [maw, n, d, uh, -pyey-, tey].
- a public pawnbroking establishment that lends money on reasonable terms, especially to people with low incomes.
mont-de-piété
/ mɔ̃dpjete /
noun
- (formerly) a public pawnshop
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mont-de-piété1
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 mont-de-piété1
from Italian monte di pietà bank of pity
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Example Sentences
These chests were a kind of Mont de Piété, and to found them was at first the favourite form of benefaction.
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The Mont-de-Piété usually does a very good business, and there will always be enough misery in Paris for it to grow rich upon.
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One thing, which is less impossible, is to indemnify the administration of the Mont-de-Piété for this gratuitous restitution.
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She rummaged among a mass of letters, of bundles of receipts and Mont-de-Piété vouchers.
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Mme Coupeau, who had once been housekeeper for an actress, was the first to speak of the Mont-de-Piété.
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