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sou

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nouncolloquialmasculine
  1. souold French coin
  2. money; cash
  3. centone hundredth of a dollar

Used in the library

  • Mais il faudra dire le contraire pour que monsieur me donne des sous.But you'll have to say the opposite if you're going to get me money.B2Le Chevalier de Mornac
  • Mais la selle de ce dernier cheval et les armes de Grimaud achetées, il ne restait plus un sou des cent cinquante pistoles d’Athos.But the saddle of this last horse and the arms of Grimaud bought, there was no more a penny of the hundred and fifty pestoles of Athos.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
  • Planchet, le valet de d’Artagnan, supporta noblement la bonne fortune; il recevait trente sous par jour, et pendant un mois il revenait au logis gai comme pinson et affable envers son maître.Planchet, d'Artagnan's valet, noblely supported good fortune; he received thirty cents a day, and for a month he returned to the gay house as a pinson and affable to his master.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires

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