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Livre vs Litre - What's the difference?

livre | litre |

As a verb livre

is .

As a noun litre is

the metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre symbols: l, l,.

livre

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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 , , 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 [...].

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    litre

    English

    (wikipedia litre)

    Alternative forms

    * (US ) liter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L,
    • You should be able to fill four cups with one litre of water.
  • (informal) A measure of volume equivalent to a litre.

    • Usage notes

    * The litre is not an SI unit but is accepted for use with SI units. The official SI symbols are the capital or lower-case roman L. The script symbol , while not officially sanctioned, was sometimes used in non-technical contexts to prevent the lower-case roman l from being confused with 1, the number one.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "litre")

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