assignatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French assignat.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈasɪɡnat/, /asɪˈnja/

名詞

assignat (plural assignats)

1. (now historical) A banknote used during the French Revolution, on the security of state land. [from 18th c.]
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 196:

     If the landed man wishes to mortgage, he falls the value of his land, and raises the value of assignats.

   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 387:

     [O]n her request for money, I took out a parcel of assignats I had in my pocket.

   • 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 25:

     He was in favour of a national bank; he was strongly opposed to the reckless issue of assignats and spoke against it in the Assembly.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 508:

     The continuing depreciation of the assignat was worsening problems: in November and December, the currency's cash return dipped below 1 per cent of its face value, bringing a comic aspect to many exchanges and inducing street beggars to decline alms in paper form.

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