Livre
Origin
From French livre.
Full definition of livre
Noun
livre
(plural livres)- (historical) A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 115:They like to see them awarded comfortable pensions. Is it 700,000 livres a year to the Polignac family?
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 30:He never, it should be noted, totally renounced his inheritance: a critic of the court round, he benefited to the tune of a cool two million livres a year from royal largesse ....