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The answer PICAYUNE has 13 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of picayune in various dictionaries:
adj - (informal) small and of little importance
Of little value or importance; paltry.
Petty; mean.
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| Unimportant, or an old Louisiana term for a small coin |
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| (informal terms) small and of little importance |
| of little value or significance petty. |
| having little value or importance: |
| Of little value or importance paltry. See Synonyms at trivial. |
| Petty mean. |
| A Spanish-American half-real piece formerly used in parts of the southern United States. |
| A five-cent piece. |
| Something of very little value a trifle: not worth a picayune. |
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A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real. Its name derives from the French picaillon, which is itself from the Provençal picaioun, the name of an unrelated small copper coin from Savoy. By extension, picayune can mean "trivial" or "of little value". * Aside from being used in Spanish territories, the picayune and other Spanish currency was used throughout the colonial United States. Spanish dollars were made legal tender in the U.S. by an act on February 9, 1793. They remained so until demonetization on February 21, 1857. The coin's name first appeared in Florida and Louisiana, where its value was worth approximately six-and-one-fourth cents, and whose name was sometimes used in place of the U.S. nickel.A newspaper published in New Orleans since the 1830s, the Times-Picayune (originally The Picayune), was named after the coin.In Truman Capote's 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, the main character, Holly Golightly, is said to smoke cigarettes with the brand name "Picayunes". Jo |
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