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‖ metalik|mɛˈtælɪk|
Also metallic, metalick.
[Turkish, prob. f. mod. Gr. µέταλλον metal + -lik suffix as in beshlik five-piastre piece.]
A former Turkish coin worth 10 paras.
1895H. Callan From Clyde to Jordan xx. 222 Each cup costs a metallic (value ½d.), and there are usually four metallics in a piastre. 1897Mrs. W. M. Ramsay Every Day Life in Turkey ii. 60 On the babies I generally bestowed a metalik (value a halfpenny) ‘for luck’. |