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n. One of several coins formerly used in France, worth a small amount.

n. An old French copper coin.

n. (slang) cent; pocket money.

n. An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece (1/20 of a franc), which is popularly called a sou.

n. An old Roman, Gallic, and French coin, originally of gold, then of silver, and finally of copper.

n. an old copper piece worth fifteen deniers (Littré); also, in the corrupted form sou marquee, said to be applied in the southern United States to a sou bearing some distinguishing mark, as a sou of 1767 counterstamped RF, or one marked in some way as counterfeit or spurious.

n. An abbreviation of southern.

n. a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money

"He also provided Rob with a species of hat, greatly to be admired for its symmetry and usefulness, as well as for a happy blending of the mariner with the coal-heaver; which is usually termed a sou'wester; and which was something of a novelty in connexion with the instrument business."

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