pice
/pahys/US // paɪs //UK // (paɪs) //
小费,骰子,骰宝
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural pice.
- : a former bronze coin of British India, one quarter of an anna.Compare pie.
- : paisa.
Examples
A trifle, Meer Sahib; a few pice to purchase oil for the temple was all he wanted.
For seven years their private life was the pice de rsistance at every feast of scandal served at Paris and Versailles.
With this pice de fantaisie it would be curious to contrast the graver and more authentic description of the impartial Daubenton.
Every pice-de-service upon his table was of individual design, numbers of them the work of the celebrated Germain.
Beef then was a pice a pound, and the vegetables cost a pie a day.
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