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millieme|ˈmɪljɛm|
Also milleme, millime.
[F. millième thousandth.]
A unit of currency, equal to a thousandth of the main unit, orig. in Egypt, now in the United Arab Republic, the Sudan, and Tunisia.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 700/1 The unit is the Egyptian pound, which is divided into 100 piastres, the piastre being again divided in 10 milliemes. Ibid., Pieces of 20, 10, 5, 2, and 1 piastres in silver; 5, 2, and 1 milliemes in nickel. 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 34 Milleme, a small Egyptian coin. 1942C. Barrett On Wallaby vi. 122 His son went round with a tambourine collecting stray milliemes. 1956E. E. Evans-Pritchard Nuer Relig. iii. 88 A Nuer refused to accept a milleme coin..because a boy of his family, when playing with a milleme, got it into his ear and died. 1972Whitaker's Almanack 1973 987 Tunisian Dinar of 1,000 Millimes. Ibid., Sudanese Pound of 100 Piastres or 1,000 Milliemes. 1973Country Life 20 Sept. 805/3 [Tunisia] One morning I was offered a necklace for ‘800 millimes and packet fags’. |