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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Mince

(French). A bank-note. The assignats of the first republic were so called, because the paper on which they were printed was exceedingly thin. (Dictionnaire du Bas-Langage, ii. 139.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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