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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 66 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PELF  , a

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term now chiefly used of
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money and always in a derogatory sense . The word originally meant
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plunder, pillage (O . Fr. pelfre, probably from
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Lat. pilare, to deprive of
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hair, pilus), and this significance is still kept in the related word " pilfer," to make
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petty thefts .

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