livre
/ˈlivrə/
noun
- A former French unit of money, used before the franc.
- The king's ransom was paid in livres, not francs.
- She found an old coin worth one livre in her grandmother's drawer.
- In the 18th century, a loaf of bread cost only a few livres.
- A unit of weight used in some countries, roughly equal to a pound.
- The merchant weighed the spices in livres on the old scale.
- One livre is about 489 grams in the traditional French system.
- The recipe called for a livre of flour, which is a little more than a pound.