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adjective
- pertaining to the use of gold and silver to create legal currency
- 1908: We well suppose that a Minister needs information as to a point which involves the Navy, India, Canada and the question " Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" (Norton 2005 p.1302)
- more generally, consisting of two metals
Etymology: From French bimétallique, from bi-, two + métallique, metallic
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