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What is a pistole?

What is a pistole? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A Spanish gold double-escudo coin of the mid-sixteenth century, or any of various gold coins derived from or based on this. [from 16th c.]
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The DM 50 and DM 70 permit the manual application of a wide range of materials by using a hand pistole.
There's a pistole for you, eat like an Emperor, d'ye hear, till that be out.
This may suggest that during this period the pound was considered approximately equivalent in value to the pistole, a gold coin of Spanish or French origin.
Know that Monsieur de Bracieux is rich enough to drink a tun of port wine, even if obliged to pay a pistole for every drop.
The moidore was worth six pieces of eight, the pistole four, the johannes eight.
This name was applied both to a small pistol and a Spanish pistole.

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