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PICAYUNE

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 579 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PICAYUNE  , the name in

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Florida and
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Louisiana of the
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Spanish
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half-real, = , of a
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dollar, 64 cents. and hence used of the
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United States 5 cent piece . The
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French picaillon, from which the word was adapted in
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America, was an old
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copper
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coin of
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Piedmont . Its origin is doubtful, but is possibly related to the
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Italian
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piccolo, little, small . In America the word is used of anything trifling,
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petty, mean or contemptible .

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