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Definition of Kyats
1. kyat [n] - See also: kyat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kyats
Literary usage of Kyats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1920)
"Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven kyats, Every kyat had seven ...
kyats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. ..."
2. The Burmese Connection: Illegal Drugs and the Making of the Golden Triangle by Ronald D. Renard (1996)
"The State Department observed that "money laundering is widespread in Burma where
the free market rate [about 50 kyats to the US dollar] is some ten times ..."
3. The Way to Ultimate Calm: Selected Discourses of Webu Sayadaw by Webu Sayadaw (2001)
"Sayagyi told him that he wished to donate three hundred kyats towards a pagoda
to be built at Webu ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"CAT'S HEAD [kats, or kyats ai'd], sb. A very large kind of apple, sweet and juicy,
excellent for cider. CAT'S ICE [kats uys], sb. Ice, which appears to have ..."
5. A Modern Form of Slavery: Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls Into by Dorothy Q. Thomas, Sidney Jones (1993)
""Swe Swe" sold her ring for 2070 kyats ($20) and 40 Chinese yuan (five dollars).
She later converted this to 300 baht ($12). Her friend had five silver ..."
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