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noun
- a tip, a gratuity
- 1963: Its landscape is one of inanimate monuments and buildings; near-inanimate barmen, taxi-drivers, bellhops, guides: there to do any bidding, to varying degrees of efficiency, on receipt of the recommended baksheesh, pourboire, , tip. " Thomas Pynchon, V.
- 1980: We got up and Don Carlo looked critically at the money I had left on the table. "That is too much. A of two lire. The waiter will be dissatisfied with those who leave a smaller but more rational mancia." "You disapprove of generosity? Perhaps they will call me Don Quixote della mancia." Neither of them thought that funny. " Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
Etymology: Italian.
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