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Dernier vs Denier - What's the difference?

dernier | denier |

As an adjective dernier

is last.

As a noun denier is

an old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.

dernier

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • last
  • * {{quote-book
    • , editor = , quotee = , title = , volume = 6: , year = 1906 , page = 90 , passage = ...the meek-tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. }} ----

    denier

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) denier, from (etyl) denarius.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.
  • * 2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 117:
    • A bronze denier bearing the inscription CONRADUS around a central cross, was minted in Lugdunum.
  • A unit of weight which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery.
  • * 2002 , (Jill Mansell), Staying at Daisy's :
    • Upstairs she rummaged through her chest of drawers, finally unearthing an unopened pack of ten denier barely blacks.

    See also

    * tex

    Etymology 2

    (deny).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Person who something.
    • Holocaust denier (see )
    Global warming denier (see )
    AIDS denier (see )
    Related terms
    * denialism * denialist

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