gourde
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gourde /gʊəd/
▶noun the basic monetary unit of Haiti, equal to 100 centimes.
– origin Fr. (orig. denoting a dollar in the former French and Spanish American colonies), fem. of gourd, lit. ‘stupid, heavy’, from L. gurdus ‘a dolt’.
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